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Emancipation Proclamation
Title: Emancipation Proclamation
Category: History
Details: Words: 869 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Emancipation Proclamation
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.” This statement was just one of many that President Lincoln addressed to the people as his stand to the aim of the war. From the beginning of the war, President Lincoln had insisted that his primary aim was the restoration of the Union, not the abolition of slavery. However, …showed first 75 words of 869 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 869 total…his 1862 Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln was not an abolitionist, but knew in his heart and mind that the institution of slavery was morally wrong. However, his main concern was the state of the country, if that meant continuing slavery and looking the other way while it was practiced, so be it. Fortunately, it came to the point that the only way the Union could be made whole was if the peculiar institution of slavery was abolished.
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