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Emancipation Proclamation Research Paper

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The Emancipation Proclamation
Growing up in an African American Baptist church I never realized the importance of Watch Night service. The Watch Night service can be drawn back to get-togethers also known as “Freedom’s Eve.” On that night of December 31, 1862, Black slaves and freed blacks originated together in private homes and churches all across the country awaiting on the news that the Emancipation Proclamation actually had become a law. (The First Watch Night Service Occurs).
On January1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, while the nation was coming near its third year of the bloody civil war. The proclamation affirmed "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward

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