In recent times, people argue that the slaves were not freed by President Lincoln, but rather they freed themselves. The slaves did play a key role in attaining their freedom, it would have been impossible without Lincoln. Many people are also saying that Lincoln was not directly trying to free the slaves, and this is somewhat true. His prime concern was to keep the union together, but he believed that freeing the slaves was necessary …
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…of the Emancipation Proclamation, it not only freed the slaves and began a stop to slavery, but it changed the reason for war. And with this newfound reason for the war, slavery, it changed the outcome. And once the war was won by the North, there was no slavery. Thus, Lincoln freed the slaves. Though they played a key role in freeing themselves, it was not until Lincoln's aid that they were the finally free.