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No. It enabled Lincoln to keep four important states loyal, when they might have been driven into the arms of the Confederacy if he had enforced abolition there.

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What is the union and confederate?

The Union is a group of states that disagree with slaves and the Confederate is a group of states that believe in slaves.


Facts about the Emancipation Proclamation?

It only released slaves of the Confederate States but not the slaves of the Union States. Only the Union slaves could be freed after the war had ended.


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What condition did Abraham Lincoln abolish?

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What was signed by Lincoln to free the slaves in the confederate states?

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