What surprises you about the text in the emancipation proclamation?

President Lincoln issued and signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, during the third year of the Civil War. ... ANSWER: What surprises me is that the text was only created in the middle of the war so that the Union could sway the African Americans to join their ranks and help them win the war.

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i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

1.a)britain

2.b)spain

3.c)french

4.d)portugal

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