| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The five-page document declared that slaves in the rebel states were free, provided them with the support of the U.S. government???including the Army and Navy, declared that freed slaves should be paid a wage, urged freed slaves to abstain from violence except in self-defense, and publically declared that all suitable freed men would be accepted into the armed services to fight in the war.
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