In announcing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's immediate purpose was to (A) free black slaves in all of the slave states (B) free black slaves in only the border slave states which had remained loyal to the Union (C) let the Southern states know that whether or not they chose to secede from the Union, slavery would not be tolerated by his administration once he took office (D) rally Northern morale by giving the war a higher moral purpose than just preserving the Union (E) recruit freed blacks into the Union army and overcome the shortage of white soldiers in the army at that time.

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