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    Compensated emancipation was a method of ending slavery, under which the enslaved person's owner received compensation from the government in exchange...
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    known colloquially as the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District...
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    as Emancipation Day. On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, an act of Compensated emancipation...
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    slavery in the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 provided partial compensation to slave owners, paid...
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  • Compensated emancipation in the United States, sometimes reparations for slave owners, was the concept of paying slave owners for their slaves as a path...
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    owners were never compensated; nor were freed slaves compensated by former owners. The border states were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation, but...
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    in Alabama History of slavery in Arkansas District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act History of slavery in Florida History of slavery in Georgia...
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    Emancipation has many meanings; in political terms, it often means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability that violates basic human...
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    states that Congress could pass in 1862 the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. The Act provided partial compensation, up to $300 per slave...
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    abolition of slavery in most of the British Empire via a programme of compensated emancipation. Grey was a strong opponent of the foreign and domestic policies...
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    of emancipation would happen if his plan of gradual compensated emancipation and voluntary colonization was rejected. But compensated emancipation occurred...
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    compensated emancipation for slaves in the state of Delaware, a proposal that was rejected by the Delaware legislature. Lincoln proposed compensated emancipation...
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    The emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, also known as the Edict of Emancipation of Russia, (Russian: Крестьянская реформа 1861 года, romanized: Krestyanskaya...
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    adopted following the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective on January 1, 1863, declared that the enslaved...
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    incident Abolitionism in the United States District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (1862), which ended slavery in Washington, D.C. John Quincy...
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    state, and all enslaved people were freed. Back-to-Africa movement Compensated emancipation Slave states and free states Timeline of abolition of slavery and...
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    promoted immediate and uncompensated, as opposed to gradual and compensated, emancipation of slaves in the United States. Garrison was a typesetter, which...
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    United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December 1837, to bring about compensated emancipation. Enslavers were paid approximately £20 million in compensation...
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    Blockade of Africa U.K. U.S. Colonization Liberia Sierra Leone Compensated emancipation Freedman manumission Freedom suit Slave Power Underground Railroad...
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    1863. President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which exempted from emancipation the border states (four slave states...
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    Cavalry in 1863. In Congress, Fisher supported Abraham Lincoln's compensated emancipation proposal, but failed to find someone in the Delaware General Assembly...
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    Reconstruction era (category African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement)
    response to Lincoln or any congressional emancipation proposal. Lincoln advocated compensated emancipation during the Hampton Roads Conference. In August...
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    trade in the district and the federal government's one and only compensated emancipation program, see slavery in the District of Columbia. History of slavery...
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    attitude toward the nobi. King Yeongjo implemented a policy of gradual emancipation in 1775, and he and his successor King Jeongjo made many proposals and...
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    residence in free territory outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation, because the Missouri Compromise, which made that territory free by prohibiting...
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  • as "deranged anthem-turned-trap" built on "blaring trumpets". "Compensated Emancipation" contrasts gospel- and blues-inspired vocals by Kyle Kidd against...
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    Tuapse. In: Caucasica, 1934, 11, S. 1–39 O'Rourke, Shane (2017). "The Emancipation of the Serfs in Europe" (PDF). In Eltis, David (ed.). The Cambridge World...
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    Blockade of Africa U.K. U.S. Colonization Liberia Sierra Leone Compensated emancipation Freedman manumission Freedom suit Slave Power Underground Railroad...
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    Mary Wills of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, noted that the Squadron was "bound to ideas of humanitarianism but also...
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    illustration of comparative slave prices is from the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation program: "The highest priced slave was a blacksmith worth $1800...
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