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and Douglass didn't know
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what he was going to be asked to do.
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And they sat down for about forty-five minutes,
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eye to eye, and Abraham Lincoln asked Frederick Douglass
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to lead a campaign
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to funnel as many slaves out of the upper south
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into some kind of security in the North, before election day in November,
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because he feared he would not be re-elected
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and he wanted as many slaves as possible
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to be secure within Union lines
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and somehow legally free under the proclamation,
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before McClellan won the election.