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The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. It provided the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln announced that he would issue a formal emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.