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This last point became clear a few months after the incident at Fort Monroe, when Lincoln countermanded a mini-emancipation proclamation issued by Gen. John C Fremont in Missouri. While black and white abolitionists celebrated union policy at Fort Monroe, they condemned Lincoln’s and the union’s retrograde action in Missouri. In doing this, they showed that emancipation would require multifaceted action to truly destroy the bondage of 4 million people in the South. In fact, when Lincoln issued his final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, he knew from military reports that thousands of enslaved people had fled their masters in hope of freedom. He now hoped that enslaved people throughout the Confederate South would rush to Union lines, literally hollowing out the secessionist cause. Thus, even Lincoln realized that he alone could not end bondage by the stroke of the pen. He needed enslaved men and women to act decisively for their freedom as well. It worked the other way too: enslaved people in reformers came to see the importance of national abolitionist laws. Indeed, even when the Civil War ended in the spring of 1865, both abolitionist and antislavery politicians realized that a reconstructed union might very well find ways to reestablish slavery if there was no definitive abolitionists law — like a constitutional amendment banning bondage — on the federal books. Final freedom in 1865 thus required the exertions of enslaved people, abolitionists and antislavery politicians alike.

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