… gradual emancipation, and although it did not free black people then held in bondage, it provided that children born … argued passionately before an anti-slavery group that most people agreed slavery was wrong, but “political expediency” …
… junta in a conflict that has displaced three million people, and the junta’s repressive acts make daily life even … resolve those problems with much care and thought for the people.” … Council on Southeast Asia Studies … …
… fought to retain the financial value of enslaved people by demanding federal compensation for emancipation. … or slave state would receive reimbursements for freed people. After losing this battle, too, white southerners …