What does the emancipation proclamation say about slavery?

We were not so hard pushed, as to make emancipation general.

It was an evidence of the spirit of selfish expediency, which prompted the whole procedure, that they clogged the emancipation bill with the proviso that a certain governmental tax on exports, called the four and a half per cent tax[A], should be repealed.

They were the stern ministers of the British emancipation law, the praises of which have been shouted through the earth!

Among these Friends the education of Negroes became the handmaiden of the emancipation movement.

The greatest danger to the emancipation project proceeds from the side of foreign countries.

Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts exterminated the institution by constitutional provision and Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania by gradual emancipation acts.

Many letters are on its files from Charles Sumner, approving its measures, and expressing great satisfaction at the large number of emancipation petitions being rolled into Congress.

"At that period the Filipinos, loving order, having been deceived of the emancipation promise, changed by the Katipúnan into crimes and attacks on the municipality of the pueblos, discontent broke out in all parts, and, although latent in some provinces, in that of Tarlac was materialized in an ex-sergeant of the late Spanish civil guard.

Well may you and others who took part in the work of emancipation rejoice in the success of your great experiment.

Douglass's funeral took place on February 25, 1895, at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, and was the occasion of a greater outpouring of colored people than had taken place in Washington since the unveiling of the Lincoln emancipation statue in 1878.

But it is as the "liberator" of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland in the great emancipation struggle,triumphantly concluded as early as 1829,and the incessant labors after that for the enlargement of Irish conditions, that O'Connell will be remembered.

The old slavery is gone, but the joy in work has not been restored; instead, those who have achieved triumphant emancipation turn from labour itself with the same distaste, yes, with greater aversion than that which obtained under the old régime.

The debt being speedily removed the school showed evidences of new vigor, but was checked in its progress by an incendiary, who burned the main building while the teachers and pupils were attending an emancipation celebration at Xenia, April 14, 1865.

May 8, is still celebrated in this section of Mississippi, as the official emancipation day.

This is the method which has been uniformly applied in the Northern States, and which will be doubtless applied some day in the border States, provided, however, civil war does not come to accomplish a very different emancipation emancipation by the rising of the slaves.

The country being in a state of war necessarily complicates everything, and renders the most plausible suggestions for the settlement of the question of emancipation futile: because from first to last now it will be one tremendous chapter of accidents, instead of a carefully considered and wisely prepared measure of government.

" "In what respect, Captain?" "Lincoln's emancipation order will make it impossible for the North to compromise.

Yet, helpless as I am, and in his hands, tell him to bring his emancipation papers, and I will sign them, though they cost me all I possess of property.