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Why did Lincoln write the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Why did Lincoln write the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Lincoln wrote it after the Union victory at Antietam to threaten the South with the loss of its slaves if the war and secession did not end by January 1, 1863. The CSA didn’t go for it, and thus the war went on for another two years.