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Abraham Lincoln: Brave To End Slavery
Do you know who freed the slaves? It was Abraham Lincoln. He was the 16th president of the us. Peace sign the “Emancipation Proclamation” in 1860 slavery Abraham Lincoln was brave to end slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th 1809 in a log cabin at sinking spring farm south of Hodgenville, in hardin county Kentucky.By 1814 thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his land in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles.
On September 28th to 1862 Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery. In 1836 he obtained his license as an attorney, and the next year he moved to Springfield, where he became a law partner of John T. Stuart. Lincoln's practice steadily increased. That first partnership was succeeded by others, with Stephen

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