All 16 Uses of
emancipated
in
Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- The committee reported proslavery resolutions, presently adopted, which praised the beneficent effects of white civilization upon African natives, cited the wretchedness of emancipated Negroes as proof of the folly of freedom, and denounced abolitionists.†
Subsection 4
- District slaveholders who wanted to emancipate their slaves were to be compensated from the federal Treasury.†
Subsection 4 *
- Stephen A. Douglas's appeal to this fear was as strong as Lincoln's: "Do you desire to turn this beautiful State into a free Negro colony in order that when Missouri abolishes slavery she can send one hundred thousand emancipated slaves into Illinois to become citizens and voters, on an equality with yourselves?"†
Subsection 4
- It would expressly make emancipation impossible except by voluntary action of the states severally.†
Subsection 6
- It called for compensated emancipation (at first in the loyal border states) assisted by federal funds, to be followed at length by deportation and colonization of the freed Negroes.†
Subsection 6
- The venerable idea of deporting emancipated Negroes, fantastic though it was, grew logically out of a caste psychology in a competitive labor market.†
Subsection 6
- Lincoln assured Congress that emancipation would not lower wage standards of white labor even if the freedmen were not deported.†
Subsection 6
- Even with these concessions the Radicals had scored a triumph and forced Lincoln part way toward emancipation.†
Subsection 6
- When Lincoln at last determined, in July 1862, to move toward emancipation, it was only after all his other policies had failed.†
Subsection 6
- The Crittenden Resolution had been rejected, the border states had quashed his plan of compensated emancipation, his generals were still floundering, and he had already lost the support of great numbers of conservatives.†
Subsection 6
- I would save the Union," he wrote in answer to Horace Greeley's cry for emancipation.†
Subsection 6
- I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy…… " The passage has a wretched tone: things had gone from bad to worse, and as a result the slaves were to be declared free!†
Subsection 6
- It contained no indictment of slavery, but simply based emancipation on "military necessity."†
Subsection 6
- Seward remarked of the Proclamation: "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating the slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."†
Subsection 6
- For all its limitations, the Emancipation Proclamation probably made genuine emancipation inevitable.†
Subsection 6
- Such claim as he may have to be remembered as an Emancipator perhaps rests more justly on his behind-the-scenes activity for the thirteenth amendment than on the Proclamation itself.†
Subsection 6
Definition:
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(emancipated) released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints