Dr.Traveler
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Mostly true. History has shown Lincoln wanted something like the EP much earlier, but held off out of concerns he'd lose the border states that still were slave holding. The EP was a calculated risk: It kept the Europeans out of the war, but the actual policy follow through kept slavery around in the border states throughout the War.The Southern documents of Secession all argue in favor of slavery. You pretty much lose the moral high ground right there. Which by the way, is a huge reason the South lost. Europe wouldn't have minded jumping in and seeing the US split but the South's pro-Slavery stance pretty much ended any hope that would happen.
That's why lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. It didn't free a single slave since it only applied to the south, not the slave owning states in the north. The EP didn't fool anyone in america but it did in yurp.