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Abraham Lincoln was an anti-slavery candidate in 1860. He had every intention of freeing the slaves as soon as it was possible. However, history records that Frederick Douglass encouraged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation as a war tactic.
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Who wanted to free slaves?
Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves.
Who forced Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves?
Nobody forced Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves, he just saw that slavery was not right so he wanted to end it.
Who let all the slaves free?
abraham lincoln
What does Lincoln encourage these free slaves to do and refrain from doing?
ddf. Actually the real answer is that Lincoln encouraged those free slaves go into freedom forever while the other un freed slaves stayed slave.
Was Lincoln a free soiler or an aboliti onist?
Lincoln was a free soiler, yet he did eventually believe that slaves were entitled to be free, concluding that he was both a free soiler and abolitionist.
Who urged Lincoln to free the slaves as a war tactic as well a moral issue?
Fredrick Douglass
Who urged Lincoln to free the slaves as a war tactic as well as a moral issue?
Fredrick Douglass
Who urged Lincoln to free slaves as a morale issue?
Fredrick Douglas urged Lincoln to free the slaves as a Moral Issue, but it raised morale as well.
What did Lincoln sigh to free slaves?
Abraham Lincoln signed a billl to free the slaves . his wife Mary todd had slaves work for her.
Who wanted to free slaves?
Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves.
Which president free the slaves?
Abraham Lincoln.
How did Abraham Lincoln kill slaves?
Abraham Lincoln did not kill any slaves. He worked to free them.
Who freed slaves in California?
Abraham Lincoln set the slaves free.
Who made slaves free in the west?
Lincoln
Why did Lincoln issue the emancipation do?
To Free the Slaves
Why is the emancipation proclamation hypocritical?
It applied to all the states over which Lincoln did not have control. But Lincoln wasn't expecting it to free many slaves while the war was on. It was a wartime tactic aimed at stopping Britain and France from aiding the South by turning it into a war against slavery.
Which statement is truePresident Lincoln wanted to free all slaves at the beginning of the war?
President Lincoln favored saving the Union over freeing the slaves.
