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Examine who Lincoln freed with the Emancipation Proclamation and explain why he waiting so long to issue it.

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Problem: Examine who Lincoln freed with the Emancipation Proclamation and explain why he waiting so long to issue it.

In fact, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed no slaves. A careful reading of the text reveals the Proclamation "freed" only those slaves who were in territory still under the control of the Confederate government. All slave states still in the Union were excepted, and so was all Southern territory currently under Union occupation. Secretary of State William Seward recognized the irony, and said, "We show our symapthy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free." The Proclamation was a war measure, designed to rally ...

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