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Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 · the declaration and its geographic scope

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Your new ahaThat enslaved people in areas rebelling against the United States were free.

It did not by itself end slavery everywhere in the United States, which was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. Source: Emancipation Proclamation ↗

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