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Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath

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Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath - Nash, Gary B, and Soderlund, Jean R
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During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of ...

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Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath 1991, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195045833

Hardcover