As a practical matter Lincoln believes in gradual emancipation. His army officers ask for specific guidance on what to do with the slaves they find in captured territories. Although Southerners contend that blacks understand it is in their "best interest to be enslaved to whites," the fact that slaves run away whenever possible, and function as spies and double agents for the Union forces contradicts their claim. The Confiscation Act of 1861 extended in 1862 frees all captured slaves. Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists keep the pressure on Lincoln to do something more for the African Americans.

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