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He didn't. Slavery was abolished by the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified after his death. He did issue the Emancipation Proclamation which said that all slaves in Confederate held territory as of January 1, 1863 would be free. This gave the Union armies the legal authority to free those slaves as they advanced.

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