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He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which the Confederacy ignored, as he had no control over the South.

His most urgent reason for issuing the Proclamation was to turn the war into an official crusade against slavery, so that Britain and France could not aid the South without looking pro-slavery themslves.

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