Your argument will consist of claims that you can support with evidence. Your essay should reference how freedom and liberty were defined before the Emancipation Proclamation, how antislavery activists and their approaches to emancipation influenced Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, and what freedoms the provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation did and did not grant. While you should include historical facts from this lesson, your argument should also be informed by the conclusions you have drawn from the evidence. 

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