Biggest Moments in Black History

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The Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, which ends plantation slavery in states that had seceded from the Union, freeing more than 3 million slaves in the United States. 

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