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The correct answer is refusing to recognize the confederacy.
President Abraham Lincoln published the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the country hovered in its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation stated "that all individuals held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforth shall be independent."
Despite this extensive language, the Emancipation Proclamation was restricted in numerous ways. It involved only states that had seceded from the United States, departing slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted regions of the Confederacy (the Southern secessionist states) that had already arrived under the Northern regime. Most significant, the freedom it pledged relied upon Union (United States) military success.
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