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title: "Was the Emancipation Proclamation & the Civil War really about ending slavery?"  
description: "Was the Emancipation Proclamation & the Civil War really about ending slavery?"  
author: "camila johnson"  
published: 2018-04-04  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40842/was-the-emancipation-proclamation-the-civil-war-really-about-ending-slavery  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Was the Emancipation Proclamation & the Civil War really about ending slavery? 

Was the [Emancipation Proclamation](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34871/which-president-wrote-the-emancipation-proclamation) &[amp](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156207/what-is-amp); the [Civil War](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51320/what-problems-did-the-south-have-after-the-civil-war) really about ending slavery? \
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