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…showed last 75 words of 1572 total…the fight for abolishment grew stronger. It was no longer necessary for the railroad to be, since almost all the slaves who were going to run already had. The end of slavery came about when 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" (NARA).