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; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...

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To which states did this proclamation apply? 

 states in the United States 

 states fighting the United States 

 states with military and naval authority 

 states that have slave populations

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OR
Who will enforce this document? 

 enslaved people in the United States 

 state government officials in the United States 

 people in designated parts of the United States 

 soldiers and sailors of the United States