Did abraham licoln want to end slavery at the start of civil war?

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Explanation:

However, Lincoln did not directly force them to abolish slavery during the Civil War because he reasonably feared that, if he did so, they would secede from the Union to join the southern states and that this would result both in the North losing the Civil War and in the continued existence of slavery.

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