Worcester's Town Meeting urged emancipation.
The Vatican urged emancipation and keeping the slave families intact, but these stipulations went unfulfilled.
A British financial agent for the Confederacy, James Spence, also urged emancipation as a means of gaining British recognition.
Lafayette addressed the Virginia House of Delegates, where he called for "liberty of all mankind" and urged emancipation of slaves.
In his first, he described the tragicomedy of life in the small eastern European Jewish towns torn between devotion to traditional Jewishness and the urge toward emancipation.
In 1783, in correspondence with Washington, a slave owner, he urged the emancipation of slaves and their establishment as tenant farmers.
Even those presumably inclined toward emancipation urged caution.
To contemporaries, Greeley was a portrait in contradictions: he helped found the Republican Party, then ran for President as a Democrat; was late in becoming an "anti-slavery man," then excoriated Lincoln for moving slowly on emancipation; urged headlong assaults on the Confederacy, then bailed Jefferson Davis out of jail.
In his treatise, Wilberforce urged that total emancipation was morally and ethically required, and that slavery was a national crime that must be ended by parliamentary legislation to gradually abolish slavery.
The New York Times stated that Stevens had "discerned the expediency of emancipation, and urged it long before Mr. Lincoln issued his proclamation" but that after the war, "on the subject of Reconstruction, then, Mr. Stevens must be deemed the Evil Genius of the Republican Party.
Percy Shelley was among those abolitionists who urged not immediate but gradual emancipation, fearing that the enslaved, so long and so violently oppressed, and denied education, would, if unconditionally freed, seek a vengeance of blood.
