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To: bentway who wrote (230782)	9/2/2013 12:43:23 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 543033

re.....if the Brits, the superpower of that time, had allied with the Confederates (whom they supported) during OUR civil war! I don't think we'd approve. Emancipation Proclamation Was Also Foreign Policy Kept Europe Out Of U.S. Civil War By Steve Jones, About.com Guide Abraham Lincoln in 1863 Everyone knows that when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 he was freeing American slaves. But did you know the abolition of slavery was also a key element of Lincoln's foreign policy? When Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, England had been threatening to intervene in the American Civil War for over a year. Lincoln's intent to issue the final document on January 1, 1863, effectively prevented England, which had abolished slavery in its own territories, from stepping into the U.S. conflict.