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At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln downplayed Slavery , and simply wanted to do what?

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On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.

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