Sentence examples for support for emancipation from inspiring English sources
This broadened support for emancipation might in turn pressure Lincoln to extend the proclamation beyond its wartime limits.
His habitual outrage extended to the unrepentant practice of slavery in the South, but he never took the North's support for emancipation as evidence of moral uprightness.
His support for emancipation alienated many of the more traditional Anglican Tories, while his espousal of free trade split the party and ended his own political career.
O'Connell's next great campaign was for the repeal of the union, but, although he had been able to muster support for emancipation from the more liberal elements of British political opinion, no such support was forthcoming for repeal.
Cornwallis' efforts to include support for emancipation clearly had negative repercussions.
The order then reaffirmed Lincoln's longtime support for gradual emancipation with compensation to the slaveholders.
Disraeli's positions on the principal issues of the day are identified — his early opposition to free trade and his championing of the cause of empire, his criticism of Victorian utilitarianism and materialism, his defense of the established Church of England, his willingness to extend the franchise to defeat his liberal enemies and the eccentric grounds of his support for Jewish emancipation.
It not only poses a challenge to the idea of widespread black support for the Union effort, which surged after Lincoln came out in support of emancipation in 1862, but it also challenges the very assumption that the war was about slavery at all.
During his visit, Phillips lobbied members of Congress in support of emancipation and equal rights.
Lincoln's response to the ministers was part of his strategy of preparing the North for emancipation and increasing support for it.
Most of Lincoln's arguments against emancipation seem, in retrospect, designed to encourage the ministers to publicly advocate for emancipation, rather than to discourage their support.
