That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand…

Abraham Lincoln
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free. ✨ Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862
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