Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the text.

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word2 · 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 ... 


What is one question this passage leaves unanswered? Describe another source that might help you answer that question.

ikitlen · Answer

Does this still need an answer~?

word2 · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

[What is one question this passage leaves unanswered?]

Yeah, What should the slaves do and where should they go now that they are free?

[Describe another source that might help you answer that question.]

Probably Newspapers and other historical documents of the time such as letters and journals.

word2 · Answer

thank you very much :)