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On September 22 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..
That was adopted in October 1862, when the Confederate Congress, after an extensive lobbying campaign, adopted the so called âTwenty Negro Law,â which granted an exemption to an owner, or one overseer on each plantation with twenty or more able-bodied slaves.