Sentences with phrase «emancipation of slaves»

In 1853, residents commemorated the anniversary of emancipation of slaves...

As soon as the Union forces proved victorious anywhere the Churches demanded the immediate emancipation of all slaves.

Pennsylvania made provision for gradual emancipation of slaves.

Clay would have saved and strengthened the Whig party; encouraged gradual, compensated emancipation of the slaves; and «probably would have avoided the Civil War of the 1860s.»

Constitutional advances in law came in 1833 with the eventual emancipation of the slaves.

The «prevailing Christian view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion of the rapture, the equality of women, the emancipation of slaves, and a host of other things that most Christians today look back on with some disgust being attached to their religion's history.

The church has altered its position on a number of key issues like astronomy, the practice of indulgences, the emancipation of slaves, and the authority of women.

At the proper time he pronounced the emancipation of the slaves, and the Union was not weakened by it.

It gave rise eventually to many new freedoms — the emancipation of slaves, the emancipation of colonies from imperial control, the emancipation of women from male domination and, more recently, the freedom of homosexuals to «come out».

He mentions only in passing that emancipation of the slaves was one legacy of the war.

The missionaries» anti-slavery campaign and their continued pressure on the Travancore government finally ended in the emancipation of the slaves.

At the Washington meeting it was decided to form the American Colonization Society for the purpose of encouraging the emancipation of slaves and the transportation of freed slaves back to their homeland in Africa.

Legislation was passed that was intended as preparation for the emancipation of slaves, but the slave - owners would not co-operate.

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Constitutional advances came in 1834 with the emancipation of slaves.

In Palmares (1988), the artist references the Brazilian colony occupied by runaway slaves in the seventeenth century, honoring the one - hundred year anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in Brazil.