"As the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states 'are, and henceforward shall be free.'"
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Lincoln's main reason for writing the Emancipation Proclamation was to free slaves in the Southern states. The proclamation granted freedom to all the slaves that worked in the large southern plantations in the case the Union ARmy won the Civil War. The Proclamation was made on January 1, 1863, and represents one of the most important freedom documents of the time of the American Civil War.
