Which did the Emancipation Proclamation specifically permit?
1.Free African Americans were allowed to fight for the Confederacy.
2.Free African Americans were allowed to enlist in the Union army and navy.
3.Enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the North.
4.Enslaved people in border states were allowed to become Confederate citizens.
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2. Free African Americans were allowed to enlist in the Union army and navy.
Explanation:
- On 22 September , the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln declared that as from January 1, 1863, all slaves in the states presently involved in revolt against the Union shall forever free.”
- Free Black men raced to fight in Union troops at the onset of the Civil War. Though African Americans served in the navy and army at the time of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, they were not allowed to enlist due to a statute of 1792, which forbade them to bear arms in the the US militia . Land.-Army. Eventually, free black people were eventually permitted to join the Emancipation Proclamation late in 1862. With the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation Free black men were finally permitted to enlist late in 1862
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