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The First Emancipation : The Abolition Of Slavery In The North
This “first emancipation†set slavery on a course towards extinction in the northern United States. As the first large-scale freeing of slaves in human history, it helped launch a movement that would in less than a century transform slavery from an accepted component of almost every human society since ancient times to something morally suspect, a “peculiar†institution. It marked a turning-point in the black experience in America.
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