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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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It was issued by US president Abraham Lincoln.
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They wanted it to be an Abolitionist war, which it wasn't. Even after he issued the Proclamation, they were disappointed, because he still allowed slavery to continue in the Border states.
STUDY your history book and u will find out
STUDY your history book and u will find out
Abolitionists pressured Lincoln to end the slavery after the start of the Civil War in 1861. These pressures also affected Lincoln to declare the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
When Abraham Lincoln was serving as a congressman in 1848, he and Horace Greeley first met. Greeley was an abolitionist and the editor of the later to be pro-Republican New York City newspaper, the New York Tribune. Later the Tribune would become involved in Abraham Lincoln's political career.The Tribune was a nationally read newspaper and at time, Greeley and Lincoln would agree or disagree on various important issues such as slavery. This was important when Lincoln won the US presidency. As an abolitionist, Greeley had influence with Radical Republicans, with whom Lincoln needed for support.
Because it allowed slavery to continue in the four slave-states that had stayed loyal (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware).
In London, the newspaper, Times, was sarcastic about the first issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. It correctly pointed out that the slaves not under the control of US President Lincoln could not be freed, while the slaves within the Union remained slaves.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln made the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation was a military necessity. Lincoln believed the proclamation would weaken the South.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which turned it into an Abolitionist war. After that, free nations abroad could not aid the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
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