In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring, "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. ...

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Lincoln is considered the savior of the union during the Civil War and emancipated all of the slaves living in America with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. ... This was done when on January 1st President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the rebel states. ... "The emancipation proclamation applies to Arkansas. ...

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Lincoln used his first tool of the war and issued in the year 1862 the "Emancipation Proclamation" which declared freedom all the slaves within the rebelling states. ... Lincoln was, he knew by issuing the emancipation proclamation that the foundation of the confederate government will shack and possibly collapse from within, which later did. ...

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Disaffected northerners whether anti-war or revengeful "bloody shirts" is always a possibility for a conspiracy but does not seem likely because politicians are always undermining each other and in-fighting.While Lincoln's recently successful conduct of the war and the Emancipation Proclamation had greatly satisfied the radical Republicans, were unlikely to consider it wise to, as Lincoln had said in another context, "change horses in mid stream". ...

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