Who did Abraham Lincoln blame for slavery?

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.

Explanation:

b) the confederacy had to pay all union war expenses.

i belive the continental association was created to boycott all contact with british goods.

i also belive it was in december 1, 1774