Define the meaning of emancipation

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When William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of War Stanton met in Savanah Georgia with a contingent of emancipated slaves and free Black men at the end of his famous march to the sea, they asked the contingent's leader, Rev. Garrison Frazier to define in practical terms the meaning of emancipation. His response, which highlighted the importance of establishing land rights and a means to work that land (to farm it), led to what famous administrative act, that was later rescinded by President Andrew Johnson?

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