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An official public statement about something that is important, or when someone makes such a statement.

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  • Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation...
  • This proclamation is considered treasonable in the North.
  • Meant to say - the entire proclamation is a mistake, Governor
  • To omit slavery in the proclamation, is to perpetuate that cause.
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