To hark back to what Bill Dyes wrote earlier and re Max above:
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. In a single stroke it changed the legal status, as recognized by the United States federal government, of 3 million slaves in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free."
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As recent events clearly show, that proclamation still hasn't won over the hearts and minds of a whole lot of folks.