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By Robert McNamara. The Emancipation Proclamation was a document signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves then held in the states in rebellion to the United States.nd as a practical matter, the slaves in the Confederacy were not free until the Union Army took possession of a region. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued as part of the presidentâs role as commander-in-chief during wartime, and was not a law in the sense of being passed by the U.S. Congress.
As a correction, the Emancipation Proclamation, enacted by Lincoln in 1863, only freed the slaves in those states that were rebelling. Because the Union only controlled some small portions of the south at the time, only a small number of slaves were immediately freed. Slavery everywhere in the US wasn't abolished until the ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865, and there were still some slaves in the northern states who weren't freed until then.