Describe the attitudes and approaches of President Abraham Lincoln, Congress, and the Union military toward slavery and slave refugees in the early years of the war. How were their evolving policies and practices shaped by blacks' actions?
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He believed that the primary goal of the war was to preserve the Union, not to end slavery. However, as the war progressed, Lincoln's views on slavery evolved, and he began to see it as a moral issue that needed to be addressed. In 1862, he issued the Emancipation Show more…
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