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Although Abraham Lincoln tried to use persuasive methods, including cash compensation, to encourage the Border States to abolish slavery during the Civil War, none would agree to do this. As a result, Lincoln composed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation after giving slave holding states a time limit on when they could willingly comply without force.

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