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The Proclamation was an urgent wartime measure, aimed at keeping Britain and France out of the war.

The mid-term elections did not show much support for it at home - reminding us of the basic fact that most Northerners were not Abolitionists.

The presence of more and more black soldiers in Northern uniform slowly started to influence American opinion about blacks as potentially equal citizens.

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