Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things the following, to wit: That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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.

–Emancipation Proclamation,

Abraham Lincoln

What does Lincoln proclaim in the Emancipation Proclamation?

A)Enslaved people across the United States are to be freed.

B)Enslaved people in states in rebellion against the United States are to be freed.

C)States in rebellion against the United States are to be granted their freedom.

D)Enslaved people in rebellion are to be granted their freedom.