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What does Lincoln tell the people who are to be freed to abstain or stay away from in the emancipation proclamation

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Lincoln told freed slaves to "abstain from all violence, except in necessary matters of self-defense". Lincoln was probably trying to prevent slaves rebelling on a large scale, because it would probably just add more complications to the Civil War.
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