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== =Emancipation Proclamation=

On September 22, 1862, Lincoln publicly announced that he would issue the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation is a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863. So the Proclamation freed enslaved African Americans only in states at war with the Union. It did not address slavery in the border states.Short of a constitutional amendment, Lincoln could not end slavery in the border states because he didn't want to endanger their loyalty. The Proclamation transformed the conflict over preserving the Union into a war of liberation.