Emancipation meant that southern landowners a. could no longer hire formerly enslaved people. b. lost their land to formerly enslaved people. c. could no longer rely on labor by enslaved people. d. lost their jobs to formerly enslaved people.

The Emancipation Proclamation which came during the Civil War meant that Southern landowners C) could no longer rely on labor by enslaved people. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in the belligerent Southern States had been freed. 

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