Reread paragraphs 2–4, then reread paragraph 5 from “The Emancipation Proclamation.”
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
How does paragraph 5 shape the idea developed earlier in the passage that persons held as slaves in rebel states are now free?
It clarifies that the freedoms granted by the Emancipation Proclamation apply only in states represented in Congress.
It acknowledges that freedoms promised to persons held in slavery will be difficult to enforce in the listed states.
It specifies that the freedoms granted by the Emancipation Proclamation apply only in rebel states.
It indicates that persons held in slavery will be officially free after an affirmative vote in the listed states.
