Nor did it free slaves in the areas around Norfolk,Virginia, and New Orleans,Louisiana.

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In time,however, there was another reason to fight: to free the black people held as slaves in the South.

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Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

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He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

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It was his personal opinion. But he did not believe that the Constitution gave him the power to free all the slaves.

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It did not free all of the slaves in the United States, only those held by the rebels.

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It declared that slaves would be free anywhere that was still in rebellion on January first, eighteen sixty-three.

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Once again,he said the war was not a struggle for the Union, but a fight to free the slaves of the south.

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Southerners often said that slaves in the South lived better lives than free workers in the North.

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The best answer, many people thought, was to free the slaves and help them return to Africa.

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Brown held religious services Sunday morning and prayed for God to help him free the slaves.

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The bill would free all slaves in the district who were born after a certain time.

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Brown sent some of his men to capture the old colonel and free his slaves.

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The northern states fought the South to save the Union and free the slaves.

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He said the movement would continue until all the slaves in America were free.

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He said he only wanted to free some slaves and take them to Canada.

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It will free the slaves, but only in areas where Lincoln has no power.

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Missouri laws did not give freedom to slaves who lived temporarily in free territory.

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It would permit the federal government to buy slaves and then free them.

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"We came to free the slaves," Brown said, "and only that."

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The states thought the federal government would free the slaves.

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Many Americans wanted Lincoln to free all the slaves.

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They would not fight to free the slaves.

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This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

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