Just one point. Of course the Abolition Proclamation did not free all slaves, or abolish slavery. But "'twere to consider it too curiously, to consider it so." The fact is that all the world took it for the death knell of slavery in North America. Garibaldi, who had refused to take command in the US Army because he had understood that the purpose of the war was NOT to abolish slavery, sent an enthusiastic letter to Lincoln, saying that as "Great Emancipator" he had gained a greater title than any king or emperor. All of Europe, whatever their views about race or slavery, now believed that the proclamation would inevitably lead to universal abolition if the North won. And they were right. After all, even if all the states in the three or four border states were not freed, how long was the Peculiar Institution going to have left even there? And Lincoln and his cabinet were quite aware that such would be the reaction.