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.
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The final executive order of the Emancipation Proclamation, only freed slaves in the areas of the Confederacy that had not already returned to Union/federal control by January 1863.
The thirteenth Amendment. abolished and outlawed slavery, throughout the US. It was ratified by 3/4 of the states in December of 1865, though it had passed both Houses, and was signed by President Lincoln, on February 1, 1865.
He issued and signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Later, the 13th Constitutional Amendment was passed, which declared that slavery was illegal in the states.
I think that abraham lincoln freed slaves because his father would hit abraham and his father made abe work at a young age
By writing the Emancipation Proclamation clearly stating that the slaves were free.
Nobody forced Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves, he just saw that slavery was not right so he wanted to end it.
Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves.
The people of the southern America wanted the slavery to contending Abraham Lincoln won the civil war. the south agreed to free the slaves
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they wanted to keep slavery in america whereas the north wanted slaves to be free and have equal rights. Abraham Lincoln was the president who wanted the slaves to be free