Read the passage from the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the purpose of this proclamation?
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.
to stop the slave trade across the US
O to free enslaved people in the South
O to offer safe passage to fugitive slaves
O to allow former slaves to fight in the war
-Emancipation Proclamation,
January 1, 1863