emancipation

• Instead of decreeing emancipation, the Legislature fell back on the policy of stricter repression. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• Whatever cries might be raised by a few for instant and unconditional emancipation, there never was a day when the vast mass of the American people, of all sections, were not avowedly and unmistakably committed to letting the Southern States treat slavery as their own matter, and deal with it as they pleased, provided only they kept it at home. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• That they would not work, and the ground would lie idle, was, as we know, the bogy which was held up to scare away from emancipation--just as in our own day the danger of race mixture is made a bogy to scare away from social justice. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• "Long after this date there are mentioned instances of a slave's emancipation, and such philanthropic writers as Fitzherbert lament the possibility of slavery and its actual existence, as a disgrace both to legislation and religion. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• This great man declared to me that he rejoiced at what was doing in other States on the subject [of emancipation--alluding to the recent formation of several state societies]; that he sincerely desired the extension of it in his own State; but he did not dissemble that there were still many obstacles to be overcome; that it was dangerous to strike too vigorously at a prejudice which had begun to diminish; that time, patience, and information would not fail to vanquish it. —  Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872

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