… chains, and calling upon Britons to aid them in their emancipation. I have come here because slavery is such a … to its grave. I know you have done a great deal towards emancipation. I thank you most heartily. What you have done … the patriotic sentiments, uttered by Curran ’ on universal emancipation. Liberty is commensurate with and inseparable …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… speaking, they had been free since Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863—two and a half … years prior. Only when Union troops arrived to enforce emancipation did freedom transform from a notion to a fact. … in Brownsville in the same way Union soldiers proclaimed emancipation in Galveston. Nearly 18 months before, when …
… a forum for discussion of the study of Cuban slavery and emancipation today, placing the island’s history within the … slave trade, resistance, systems of control, abolition and emancipation, and the memory and legacies of slavery in Cuba. …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… all; but they have thrown themselves across the pathway of emancipation, and made it our duty to make war upon them, or … absolute falsehood; there are laws in America which make emancipation depend upon expatriation; they say that unless a …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Church Country, Conscience, and the Anti-Slavery Cause Emancipation is an Individual, a National, and an … Responsibility England Should Lead the Cause of Emancipation Farewell to the British People Frederick …