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Why did President Lincoln view emancipation as a difficult topic?

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Lincoln was determined not to let any of the Border States join the Confederacy. (1862)
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Lincoln feared that if he advocated emancipation he would provoke those states into joining the Confederacy, making the war even more difficult to win. Abraham Lincoln was determined not to let any of the Border States join the Confederacy. The United States in 1862.

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