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Why is Abraham Lincoln nicknamed the Great Emancipator? Who freed the slaves?

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Lincoln admitted on that New Year's Day in 1863 that he never “felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.” Although he waffled on the subject of slavery in the early years of his presidency, he would thereafter be remembered as “The Great Emancipator.”
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