Sentence examples for emancipation scheme from inspiring English sources
His two most practical proposals came in the early 1780s: a gradual emancipation scheme by which all slaves born after 1800 would be freed and their owners compensated, and a prohibition of slavery in all the territories of the West as a condition for admission to the Union.
"Immediatism," however variously it was interpreted by American reformers, condemned slavery as a national sin, called for emancipation at the earliest possible moment, and proposed schemes for incorporating the freedmen into American society.
He spends even more pages on Henry Laurens and his son John, who had an unfulfilled scheme to encourage slaves to fight in the war and open a door to their emancipation.
African Americans did not simply choose to live under the worst conditions when they migrated to Northern cities by the millions after emancipation; rather local, state, and federal practices facilitated through block-busting, red-lining, and unequal lending schemes targeted black communities and contributed to urban rebellions of the 1960s and the Baltimore Uprising.
So, too, with emancipation.
The emancipation of slaves.
Emancipation was becoming a reality.
On Reading the Emancipation Proclamation".
FAIRFIELD Fairfield Museum and History Center Promisee of Freedom: Emancipation Proclamation".
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
