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===Gradual emancipation and compensation===
In an effort to keep border states in the Union, Lincoln, as early as 1861, designed gradual [[compensated emancipation]] programs paid for by government bonds. Lincoln desired [[Delaware]], [[Maryland]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Missouri]] to "adopt a system of gradual emancipation which should work the extinction of slavery in twenty years". On March 26, 1862, Lincoln met with Senator Charles Sumner and recommended that a special joint session of Congress be convened to discuss giving financial aid to any border states who initiated a [[Gradual emancipation (United States)|gradual emancipation]] plan. In April 1862, the joint session of Congress met; however, the border states were not interested and did not make any response to Lincoln or any congressional emancipation proposal.{{sfnp|Guelzo|1999|pp=[https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnre00guel/page/333 333–335]}} Lincoln advocated compensated emancipation during the [[Hampton Roads Conference]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Murphree |first=R. Boyd |date=Summer 2018 |title=Review |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0039.208/--our-one-common-country-abraham-lincoln-and-the-hampton-roads?rgn=main;view=fulltext |journal=Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association |volume=39 |issue=2 |issn=1945-7987}}</ref>