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Prior to Lincoln's presidency, the terms he offered for freeing slaves in Washington DC depended on popular sovereignty. He believed that white people should have to consent to any emancipation. Also, his insistence upon gradualism and slave owner compensation was in line with his 1849 proposal on slavery. His early thoughts as US president were to ask the slave border states to comply with a compensated and gradual emancipation of slaves.

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