Abraham Lincoln
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If I could save the Union without freeing [any] slave I would do it?" (Selected Speeches 343 as qtd. in Tackach 44). Lincoln also refused to declare that slavery was the Civil War's main focus because many Whites in the North and in the much-valued Border States would not agree with a war to free slaves since they believed Blacks were inferior to Whites (Wheeler 225-226)...
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The political and military advantages of the Border States made Lincoln reluctant to proclaim the Civil War to be a war about slavery (Wheeler 225-226). Even Jefferson Davis, president of the enemy Confederacy, disagreed with a war about slavery (Wheeler 226). Then why did President Lincoln, in the midst of a war he claimed was not about slavery, issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Emancipation Proclamation itself answers the question, stating that Lincoln was freeing the Southerners' slaves, "upon military necessity" ("The Emancipation Proclamation" as qtd...
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