Posted by Joanne on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 8:22pm.
Lincoln drew the line in the sand. Before the start of the Civil War, he equivocated about the existence of slavery. However, the war proved to him that slavery had to be abolished. The Proclamation gave both sides a solid reason to fight.
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