The Negro in American History: A taste of freedom, 1854-1927Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1972 - African Americans Source material quoting from diaries, letters, court decisions, poetry, statements, articles, etc. by 137 different authors. |
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Page 318
... Emancipation Proclamation actually did not free a single slave , since the regions in which it authorized emancipation were under Confederate control , and in the border states where emancipation might have been effected , it was not ...
... Emancipation Proclamation actually did not free a single slave , since the regions in which it authorized emancipation were under Confederate control , and in the border states where emancipation might have been effected , it was not ...
Page 338
... Emancipation Compensated emancipation was a scheme to allow the government to free the slaves and reimburse slave owners . The Republican platform of 1860 recognized it as a desirable solution to the slavery issue . President Lincoln ...
... Emancipation Compensated emancipation was a scheme to allow the government to free the slaves and reimburse slave owners . The Republican platform of 1860 recognized it as a desirable solution to the slavery issue . President Lincoln ...
Page 339
... emancipation completely de- prives them of it as to all the states initiating it . The point is not that all the states tolerating slavery would very soon , if at all , initiate emancipation but that , while the offer is equally made to ...
... emancipation completely de- prives them of it as to all the states initiating it . The point is not that all the states tolerating slavery would very soon , if at all , initiate emancipation but that , while the offer is equally made to ...
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ALAIN LOCKE The High Cost of Prejudice | 3 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR Nixon v Herndon | 10 |
WILLIAM PICKENS The Emperor of Africa | 20 |
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