(LC)The Emancipation Proclamation, excerpt BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States, and each of the States, and the people thereof, in which States that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Governments existing there, will be continued. Use context to determine the meaning of the word in bold

Lincoln personally hated slavery, and considered it immoral.

President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that, all slaves in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”.

The document applied only to enslaved people in the Confederacy, and not to those in the border states that remained loyal to the Union.

Lastly, the Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for the permanent abolition of slavery in the United States. Lincoln realized emancipation would have no constitutional basis after the war ended, they soon began working to enact a Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

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