...Proclamation: merit of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will...any efforts they may make for their actual freedom . . . And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless...

...THEN, THENCEFORWARD AND FOREVER, FREE ; and the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will...persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for actual freedom ; that the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate...

...of the United States "will recognize and maintain the freedom" of people held in bondage by rebels and "will do no act or acts to repress such persons,...any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." On the designated day the president declared such persons free "and that the Executive Government,...

...message, Lincoln ordered "the military and naval authority" to "recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom" (my emphasis).68 Though Lincoln still included sentences intended to encourage border states to accept...

...government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will...any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. Prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, the legal status of Southern slaves in Union camps during the...

...Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will...any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. [...l Wenn man dieser Proklamation Glauben schenken mag, so waren die Sklaven, von denen viele Afroamerikaner...

...Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will...any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. . . . And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons...

...authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom" of anyone freed by the final proclamation, and "will do no act or acts to repress such persons,...any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." Davis charged that this language, by declaring that the United States would do nothing to suppress...

...be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, and thenceforward, and forever free; * * * That the Executive will, on the first day of January...aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and part of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against...

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