What role will the executive government and military authorities play in upholding the proclamation?
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.
-Emancipation Proclamation,
Abraham Lincoln
A. They will maintain and protect the rights of free
persons with respect to freedom.
B. They will persecute states and persons that have
engaged in rebellion against the US.
C. They will do acts to liberate enslaved persons in
any and all states.
D. They will recognize the freedom of persons and
states in rebellion with the US.