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Speaker or Author: editor
Newspaper:Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Date Published: 1838-06-09
Notes: The writer questions the fears of immediate emancipation of slaves in the U.S. that seem to be holding back legislation that will free the slaves. He points to the emancipation of the British West Indies as proof that this can be done without the bloodshed that opponents of immediate emancipation fear most.
Speaker or Author: Pennington, James W. C.
Newspaper:Presscopy -- Connecticut Historical Society -- Pamphlets
Title: An Address, Delivered at Hartford, Conn., on the First of August, 1856.
Date Published: 1856
Notes: The speaker approached the subject of emancipation on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies. He traced the history of emancipation from the 1700's, and emphasized through example the clever ways some slave holders continued the system without calling it slavery.