... personal power but in order to preserve the Union. What started as a war to preserve the Union became a battle for freedom and a war to end slavery when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863. Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation "indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the ... intervention through appeals to the sanctity of the Union held no sway in other countries. Forced, then, to seek other strategies, the president ultimately hit on the idea of using emancipation to forestall the possibility of foreign interv...

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... the consent of both sides. Lincoln took his supporter's opinions into account so loyally that by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, he was in favor of completely abolishing slaver. However, this didn't automatically make him an abolitionist, because he only signed the Proclamation because it was his last shot at saving the union. Hofstadter clearly states, "when Lincoln at last determined to ... move toward emancipation, it was only after all his other policies had failed" (168). In spite of his lack of political conviction regarding the Emancipation Proclamation, he was ultimat...

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... saw in his eyes keeping the Union united was important not having blacks and whites be equal. Abraham Lincoln also did not necessarily free any slave at all. When the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted it indeed did not even free a single slave it only helped stop slavery from spreading North. And even after the Thirteenth Amendment freed the slaves, slaves were still ... ...

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