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when was the emancipation proclamation officially announced?

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The Emancipation Proclamation was officially announced by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, and it took effect on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory.

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