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Abraham Lincoln emancipated the African Americans because?

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Because he had an urgent need to keep the British from intervening on the side of the Confederates.

If he officially turned the war into a crusade against slavery, the British could not intervene without looking pro-slavery in the eyes of the world. (The British had, of course, abolished slavery years earlier.)

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