Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Abraham Lincoln
The 1863 proclamation changed the legal status of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from 'slave' to 'free.' While it didn't end slavery everywhere immediately, it fundamentally transformed the Civil War into a struggle for human liberty.
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