| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The Emancipation Proclamation was a document that officially changed nothing -- Congress had already passed laws outlawing slavery in the rebel states, which was the only territory Lincoln covered in the Proclamation. (Lincoln the politician wanted to keep border-state voters happy.)And the Proclamation took effect on Jan. 1, 1863, two years after the Civil War began -- what took Lincoln so long?
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