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Lincoln knew that there was still racial distrust of Africans even in the North. He needed the support of border states that still allowed slavery and feared unrest at freeing all of the slaves. Still, he did not always dissuade the inclusion of black volunteer groups in the Union Army, wherever his generals thought proper. By August, 1862, aware of the need for Union enlistees, Congress authorized the formation of "test" regiments, segregated and led by white officers, within the Army proper.

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Lincoln wanted all blacks deported after the civil war because he thought them inferior to whites. He had plans to send them offshore. John Wilkes Booth save the black man from expulsion from the mainland.

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For the same reason that he did not proclaim emancipation until Sep 1862. He hoped at first that Unionist elements in the South might bring an end to secession, and feared that "provovative" actions might lead to secession by the border slave States. By 1862/3, however, it was clear that Southern Unionists were too weak to do this, and that military victory was the only way of restoring the Union, while the Border states were no longer able to secede in the face of the Union Army. So he went ahead.

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It wasn't President Lincoln as much as people from the north that didn't want black men to fight. Even though they didn't believe in slavery, they were still prejudice against the black man.

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Because he wanted to deport them

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