Sentence examples for emancipation measures from inspiring English sources

Offering emancipation measures to the peasants, Kościuszko brought a large number of them under his banner.

Many of them had been encouraged to desert by family, friends and neighbors at home – the region had a high population of Southern sympathizers and antiwar Democrats – who, in a concerted letter-writing campaign directed at soldiers, lashed out at President Lincoln's recent Emancipation Proclamation and other administration measures to conquer the rebel states.

Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hoped "to lay a foundation for some future measures for the emancipation of the poor slaves", which he believed should come about gradually in stages.

Davis calls the Emancipation Proclamation "the most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man".

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure.

He issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime measure, did not apply to all slaves, and might be reversed by peacetime courts; an amendment would be slavery's end.

And, with keen scrutiny, they measured the reality of emancipation — indeed, of the nation — against its promise.

There has been significant progress on many dimensions since emancipation, but relatively little progress as measured by wealth.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued as a war measure and its legality under the Constitution was unsettled.

The denunciation of Sumner serves as an important reminder that, in fall 1861, declaring emancipation and justifying it as a war measure was unthinkable to most Americans.