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Abraham Lincoln did not end slavery, per Se. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. In 1863. President Lincoln wrote and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made slavery illegal in the Southern States, which had seceded from the Union (11 in total.) The 13th Amendment was passed in December of 1864.
The North was opposed to southern secession in the Civil War. They believed that secession was illegal and saw it as a threat to the unity and stability of the United States. The North aimed to preserve the Union and viewed secession as a rebellion that needed to be suppressed.
He freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation that said slaves could no longer be kept in the rebel states, also known as the South. Lincoln freed the slaves to try to keep the North fighting and to force the South back into the United States, Lincoln wanted to send all the slaves to central america because he did not believe whites and blacks should live together, Lincoln also was a slave owner.
The southern states made the assumption that Lincoln would make slavery illegal.
Yes not in the Emancipation Proclamation which freed most slaves but The thirteenth amendment finalized making slavery illegal in the United States in 1865. Abraham Lincoln strongly passed that. It is more accurate to say that the ownership of slaves only among the general public was outlawed in 1865; it is still legal for the Government to enslave its prisoners who are found guilty after due process of the law.