The American Civil War began in order to restore the union and not to abolish slavery. In 1862 , president Abraham Lincoln got the idea of expanding the goals of the war for the purpose of saving the country. The Emancipation Proclamation made a radical change in the aims of Lincoln’s policy. As a commander in Chief , Abraham Lincoln declared the liberation of enslaved African Americans who lived in Confederacy states knowing that they were in rebellion. The Proclamation was described by Frederick Douglass as « the first step on the part of the nation in its departure from the thralldom of the ages ». Over the examination of Lincoln’s related documents and the accounts of black Amrecians during the civil war ,
