The Emancipation Proclamation is probably one of the most important documents there is to an African American in the history of their culture, especially around the mid to early 1800's. With majority of the African Americans being slaves around that time period this was there ticket to freedom. This document signed by Abraham Lincoln was the end of all slavery and set free every single last slave in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for African Americans to fight for their freedom. Lincoln declared in the Proclamation that African Americans of “suitable condition, would be received into the armed service of the United States.”