Abe Lincoln and Slavery

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Lincoln new that since he strongly despised slavery that he wasn't going to win any slave states; so he strongly campaigned in the north. For this action he became the president elect. Because of his election, South Carolina seceded from the union. Lincoln wanted to preserve the union without bloodshed, but that didn't happen...
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At the beginning of the Civil War Lincoln believed that it was being fought to preserve the union, but then he strongly believed it was because of the issue of slavery. Also at first he believed that he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1863 as a war measure, but then he realized that he wrote it because he knew that slavery was inhumane and he needed to do something a bout it...
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