Emancipation+Proclamation+GZ

= Emancipation Proclamation  = = = =  On January 1, Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free all slaves in the U.S.A. it declared free only those slaves living in states that weren't under Union control. The proclamation also allowed black soldiers to fight for the Union. =