2. PART B: Which of the following best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the
people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be
then, thenceforward, and forever free..." (Paragraph 2)
B. "...the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and
naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such
persons" (Paragraph 2)
C. "And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all
violence, unless in necessary selfdefence; and I recommend to them that, in all
cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages." (Paragraph 7)
D. "And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the
Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of
mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God." (Paragraph 9)