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He promoted and helped to assure the passage (though its final application happened after his assassination) of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution which made slavery illegal.

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He began the process Emancipatation proclamation

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Yes, during his time as the sixteenth president of the United States, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all people who were held in slavery at the time.

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Not exactly. He did do many things that helped accomplish getting rid of slavery, but he didnt abolish it himself, and discrimination existed until the late 60's.

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Abraham Lincoln stopped slavery on January 1,1863

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Like most Northerners, Lincoln was not passionately anti-slavery, and in the run-up to the war, he would need the support of those slave-states that had voted against joining the Confederacy.

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