If you could pick one sentence from the emancipation proclamation that best characterizes the document, what would it be? explain your choice.

¨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¨
It is the main reason on why this document was made

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