It was an excuse for not returning the slaves to their owners, and thereby weakening the Southern economy.
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because emancipation proclamation granted them thoses rights
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slaves ran away from plantation to join the Union.
because they want the people enslaved in the south to be free...
During the American Civil War, the President of the Union (i.e., the United States), Abraham Lincoln, had one persistently pursued goal, namely, preservation of the Union. As the war progressed, the abolition of slavery became another desperately sought goal of Lincoln and many other Northerners, not to overlook many of the enslaved Americans in the South.