Not the way the confeds reworked their pretend constitution. They immortalized the Peculiar Institution.
The Confederate Constitution specifically said NO MORE SLAVES WOULD BE IMPORTED.
They didn't have to because black populations were (and had been) self-sustaining for several generations.
Lincoln didn’t give a rat’s ass about slaves and said it in his official papers many times.
So what? He didn't set out to free the slaves - he set out to defend the union.
England was also getting ready to side with the Confederacy and he knew if he made the war about slavery and the “rights of man” England would not offer support to the South.
Baloney, the Brits might cozy up so as to make their acquisition of the south easier but they were NEVER going to formally recognize the rebels.
Lincoln was a racist of the first degree and cared not a wit about a black slave and said it many times. He was a two-bit railroad lawyer installed by Northern industrialists to do their bidding.