<span>What role did the emancipation proclamation play in freeing the slaves? </span>"After the union victory in <span>Battle of Antietam Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the issue in January 1. 1863 slaves can be free"
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The emancipation proclamation was the written document that freed slaves in the south. So instead of saying it, and (if he actually did, change his mind) it has already became a 'law-of-sorts' and cannot be changed
