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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.
In September 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in areas that were still in rebellion against the Union. This measure opened the issue of what to do about slavery in border states that had not seceded or in areas that had been captured by the Union before the proclamation. In 1864, an amendment abolishing slavery passed the U.S. Senate but died in the House as Democrats rallied in the name of statesâ rights.