In this excerpt from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's purpose was to ?

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In this excerpt from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's purpose was to ?
2:43
... all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward,
and forever free;
O send a message to slaves who were in border states that they are free
use a compromising tone and make peace with the slave owners
abolish slavery in the Southern states that had seceded from the Union
O repeal the Fugitive Slave Act
Transcribed Image Text:2:43 ... all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; O send a message to slaves who were in border states that they are free use a compromising tone and make peace with the slave owners abolish slavery in the Southern states that had seceded from the Union O repeal the Fugitive Slave Act
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