The beginner's American history . Statue of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation which gave theSlaves their Freedom, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. But this was not all. The people who held slaves atthe South wanted to add to the number. They hoped toget more of the new country west of the Mississippi River ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 213 for slave states, so that there might always be at least asmany slave states in the Union as there were free states. ^ /^i%.

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