Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was elected from the state of Illinois while running for the Republican Party. Prior to the Civil War he insisted that his main goal was to maintain a Union which didn't mean that he would free or continue to allow slaves to be property.
In 1862, Lincoln gave the "Emancipation Proclamation" which freed all slaves in the Southern States. Remember this didn't free the border states slaves (states that didn't secede from the Union).
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