WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST BECAUSE ITS FOR A TEST
In the Emancipation Proclamation, what did Lincoln encourage African Americans to do?

a. Lincoln encouraged the freedmen to join the Union army.

b. Lincoln encouraged the freedmen to build churches and schools.

c. Lincoln encouraged the freedmen to leave the plantations where they had been enslaved and to find family members from whom they had been separated.

d. Lincoln encouraged the freedmen to take jobs in agriculture and to help rebuild the Southern economy.