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Emancipation

2 articles on Emancipation

• Emancipation

  Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass

  Word Count: 5818      Includes:  Emancipation before the Revolution | Emancipation after the Revolution | Bibliography | Bibliography

  [This entry contains two subentries dealing with the emancipation of slaves from before the American Revolution through the ratification of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. The first article discusses the various means by which African Americans could gain freedom up to 1830, while the second article provides an overview of individual state abolitionist activity and the debate over emancipation through the Civil War.]

  The complex institution of slavery in North America varied greatly for the duration of its existence and throughout the continent. Most slaves yearned for freedom, but it was seldom handed to them; those who toiled throughout the development of the young American nation strove long and hard to be free.

  Early New England settlers were ...
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• Emancipation in the United States

  Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition

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  Freeing of slaves through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

  Events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation: See Abolitionism in the United States; Civil War, American; Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment; Slavery in the United States.

  Recruitment of black soldiers for the Civil War following the Emancipation Proclamation: See Douglass, Frederick; Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment; Hayden, Lewis; Military, Blacks in the American.

  Hostile reactions to emancipation: See Antiabolitionism; New York City Draft Riot of 1863.

  Effect of emancipation on American law: See Slavery and Law in North America.

  Effect of emancipation on individuals: See

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