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Why did Lincoln only free the slaves in the states of the confederacy instead of all slaves?
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∙ 11y ago
Because he was anxious not to upset powerful slave-owners in the border-states and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoBecause he didn't want to upset powerful slave-owners in the slave-states that had stayed loyal, and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy.
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∙ 8y agoHe didn't want to risk losing border states to the Confederacy.
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Who were Frederick Douglass's friends and enemies?
friends- states with slavery outlawed Abraham Lincoln slaves enemies- Confederacy
What condition did Abraham Lincoln abolish?
Slavery, but only within the Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't affect slaves in Union states. (But there weren't many slaves in Union states.)
Should Lincoln have freed the slaves in the border states?
No. It would have alienated many influential slave-owners, and driven those states into the arms of the Confederacy.
Why would Lincoln free the slaves only in the confederacy and not in the union controlled border states?
Becuase he didn't want to lose the support of the border states.
Why would Lincoln symbolically free slaves that were still being held by the confederacy and not all slaves in the nation?
Because he didn't want to upset powerful slave-owners in the four slave-states that had remained loyal, and drive those states into the arms of the Confederacy.
What did the emancipation proclamation affect and who didnt it affect?
It applied to slaves in the states that were in rebellion (where, of course, Lincoln had no authority at that time). It did not apply to slaves in the four slave-states that had remained loyal. Lincoln did not want to upset powerful slave-owners in these states, and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy.
What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederacy as a strategic war move; it did not free slaves in key border states, such as Maryland and Virginia, where some slaves worked for the Union army. freed most slaves inthe confederacy NOVANET
How did Lincoln justify freeing only slaves in rebel states?
Because freeing southern states weakened the confederacy, the proclamation could be seen as a military action.
What did president Lincoln issue that changed the reason for fighting and freed the slaves in the confederacy?
Because the Declaration Of Independence states all men are equal.
What document promised to free all slaves in those states or parts of states still under control of the Confederacy?
it was a speech Abraham Lincoln wrote when he was elected as president in 1860 but not all of the slaves were free Lincoln changed his idea and tried to keep the US together.
Why didn't Lincoln didn't talk about slavery in the slave states?
In fact Lincoln owned slaves and viewed himself as a farmer or common man. Lincoln did not want to ban slavery on states that served as buffers between the Union and Confederacy states because the Confederacy would be able to attack easier its a battle strategy. Lincoln was more concerned with saving the Union at all cost than banning slavery
Was it a bad choice to allow slaves in union states?
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.
