<u>President Lincoln freed slaves, and he was apart of the Republican party. Slaves were freed during the civil war and the North/Union was the side that wanted to free them.</u>
Explanation: "That day—January 1, 1863—President Lincoln formally issued the Emancipation Proclamation, calling on the Union army to liberate all enslaved people in states still in rebellion as “an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity.” These three million enslaved people were declared to be “then, thenceforward, and forever free.” The proclamation exempted the border states that remained in the Union and all or parts of three Confederate states controlled by the Union army." "The Emancipation Proclamation transformed the Civil War from a war against secession into a war for “a new birth of freedom,” as Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address in 1863." The reality is that the North's opposition to slavery was based on political and anti-south sentiment, economic factors, racism, and the creation of a new American ideology. While the South was dependent on slavery and wanted to keep enslaved people. Hope this helps.
