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title: "What did the Emancipation Proclamation encourage escaped slaves to do?"  
description: "What did the Emancipation Proclamation encourage escaped slaves to do?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-04-25  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41771/what-did-the-emancipation-proclamation-encourage-escaped-slaves-to-do  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What did the Emancipation Proclamation encourage escaped slaves to do?

What did the [Emancipation Proclamation](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34871/which-president-wrote-the-emancipation-proclamation) [encourage](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11812/4-ways-to-encourage-friendships-at-work) escaped slaves to do?\
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