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Semenov [28]
3 years ago
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1 answer:
bogdanovich [222]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Lincoln did not believe he, as the president, had the power under the Constitution to abolish slavery where it already existed. Nor did he want to anger the four slave states that remained in the Union. He also knew that most Northern Democrats were against emancipation.

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