Read the following excerpt from the emancipation proclamation, issued by
president abraham lincoln during the american civil war. which of the
following best summarizes this excerpt?
now, therefore 1, abraham lincoln, president of the united
states, by virtue of the power in me vested as commander-
in-chief, of the army and navy of the united states in time
of actual armed rebellion against the authority and
government of the united states, and as a fit and
necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do,
on this first day of january, in the year of our lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance
with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full
period of one hundred days, from the day first above
mentioned, order and designate as the states and parts of
states wherein the neople thereof resnectively are this day