"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery" Abraham Lincoln 1862, before he issued the emancipation proclamation to the world. ... There were many events leading up to the emancipation proclamation. ... So, Lincoln decided that after a victorious battle he would issue an emancipation proclamation to the world. ... It was the victorious Antietam battle that Lincoln needed for launching his emancipation proclamation. ... The emancipation proclamation outraged the south, they thought Lincoln was only trying to upset the slaves...

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The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation came about on January 1, 1863. ... The south did not take Lincoln's policy and so he made the Emancipation Proclamation January, 1, 1863. ... The Emancipation Proclamation turned real with thousands of slaves set free. ... The Emancipation Proclamation ranks among the greatest historic documents of freedom, experts say. ... The Emancipation Proclamation was bound and kept at the State Department for many years. ...

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During the Civil War President Lincoln wrote and delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. ... The Emancipation Proclamation order only the slaves released that were in areas still in rebellion. ...

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This was vital for the emancipation of the slaves, he needed the country to stay united, but the north had to have to upper-hand. ... It was Lincoln's push that freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. ... He is the man who came up with the Emancipation Proclamation, and without him the 13th amendment wouldn't have followed as quickly. ...

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On this day Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which states, "All persons held as slaves within any state, designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall then, thenceforward and forever free" (Emancipation). ... With this proclamation Lincoln freed all of the slaves in the confederacy. ...

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EULOGY:ABRAHAM LINCOLN President Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President of the Union of States of America. Lincoln was loved by all in the Union, especially those Republicans. He was the only Republican in the presidential election and won. Lincoln never seemed to have a fear of death, as expresse...

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Sept. 22, 1862: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 1. to free slaves of the Confederacy B. ... In September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves of the Confederacy. ...

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