emancipation

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In his private diary, the brewer speculated on his future reputation: "The founder of Vassar College and President Lincoln�two noble emancipationists, one of women."

From Time Magazine Archive

How far the conduct of Mr. Thompson and his friends was calculated to produce a reaction in the South, and incline moderate and humane masters to the views of the emancipationists, cannot now be determined.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.

You are deceived by the representations of the emancipationists.

From American Notes by Dickens, Charles

The question of emancipation is not clear even in the heads of the leading emancipationists; not one thinks to give freeholds to the emancipated.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

Some of the speakers openly predicted that the war would spread into the North, if not terminated at once, and in that event, the emancipationists would have foes to fight elsewhere than in the South.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp