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After the Confederate States left the Union, most of the proslavery vote disappeared. So how hard was it for Lincoln to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed among the remaining states? Did he have to do a lot of horse-trading? What did he have to give up to end slavery?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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