Explain what this document tells you about life in the United States during the early 1800s.

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anonymous · Answer

There were a great number of documents floating around during the 
early 1800s.  Each of them would tell us something different about life 
in the United States during that time.  So the answer to this question 
completely depends on which individual document from the time is 
being consulted.  Since you have not specified the document, it's not 
possible to nail down an answer.

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

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 ... 


Briefly restate the most important information in the document using your own words.

utterly_confuzzled · Answer

It's basically saying that anybody that was held as a slave, was to be freed