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By the president of the United States of America. A proclamation : Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued ... Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested ... do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free ... Done at the city of Washington this first day of January ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three

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