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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 aState, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of theUnited 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 suchpersons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ....------------Who will enforce this document?A) enslaved people in the United StatesB) state government officials in the United StatesC) peopledesignated parts of the United StatesD)soldiers and sailors of the United States