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Notice that he did not emancipate them; he just 'proclaimed' that they were emancipated.

This was for the ears of the British and the French, who had been planning to help the Confederates. Now that the war had been made to look like a crusade against slavery, free nations abroad could not aid the South without looking actively pro-slavery themselves. The Proclamation totally fulfilled Lincoln's hopes. The other countries had to stay out of it.

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