The Emancipation Proclamation
On the first day of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. At first Lincoln was hesitant about releasing it because he needed to keep the border states happy. Before Lincoln's policy was to ignore slaves in border states because he did not want them to secede. Other reasons for him to delay the Emancipation Proclamation were because of the many prejudice northerners and he was also worried about the slaves constitutional protections. Even after the Emancipation Proclamation slavery was allowed in border states but the Emancipation Proclamation did commit the south to abolition and now Union army was not only fighting against secession and rebellion but also slavery.
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