Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley
1862 · Event
'If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it' — written while a draft emancipation proclamation lay in Lincoln's drawer.
On these timelines: American Civil War, Slavery & Abolition, USA, Master
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