<h2>Answer:</h2><h3>Douglass regarded the Civil War as the fight to end slavery, but like many free blacks he urged President Lincoln to emancipate the slaves as a means of insuring that slavery would never again exist in the United States.</h3><h2><em><u>Hope</u></em><em><u> this</u></em><em><u> helps</u></em><em><u> you</u></em><em><u> ❤️</u></em></h2>