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An estimated 500,000 to 700,000 self-emancipated slaves reached Yankee camps.

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Had the Confederacy won its independence, the immediate consequences for African-Americans would have been catastrophic: possible pogroms against self-emancipated blacks who had taken up arms against their former masters, and decades or generations more of slavery for the rest, underpinned by an official racial ideology.

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In Spain, the Sephardic Jews had achieved wealth and learning even while they were beset by the same dilemmas faced by the self-emancipated Jews of Germany.

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Just as importantly, they also established a place for self-emancipated Jews, converts or not, inside European culture.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

With their aid she went to the South more than once, returning always with a squad of self-emancipated men, women, and children, for whom her marvelous skill had opened the way of escape.

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Hauptmann, who painted the tragedy of the self-emancipated superman, -- as

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M. de C----- was enlarging on the somewhat Bohemian character of the establishment of a lovely foreign lady, who possesses the secret of being always surrounded by delightful friends, young ladies who are self-emancipated, quasi - widows who, by divorce suits, have regained their liberty, etc.

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Frederick Douglass, Henry Bibb, W.. W.lls Brown, Rev. J.W. Logan, and others, gave unmistakable evidence that the race had no more eloquent advocates than its own self-emancipated champions.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

So I believed at that time -- such is my belief how: I reminded the audience of the peril which surrounded this self-emancipated young man at the North, even in Massachusetts, on the soil of the Pilgrim Fathers, among the descendants of revolutionary sires; and I appealed to them, whether they would ever allow him to be carried back into slavery, law or no law, constitution or no constitution.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

Frederick Douglass, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, Rev.J. W. Logan and others, gave unmistakable evidence that the race had no more eloquent advocates than its own self-emancipated champions.

Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising 1887