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"For Divers Good Causes And Considerations" : Manumission Practices Of Albany, Ny Slaveholders, 1799-1824, William Angelo Meredith
"For Divers Good Causes And Considerations" : Manumission Practices Of Albany, Ny Slaveholders, 1799-1824, William Angelo Meredith
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
On March 29, 1799, the New York State Legislature received notice that the state's Council of Revision had approved, "an Act for the gradual abolition of Slavery." The bill changed slavery in such a way that children born to slaves after July 4, 1799, became free upon reaching the age of twenty-five for females and twenty-eight for males. Given the monumental change produced by this legislation, historians have linked passage of the gradual abolition bill to an increase in slave manumissions. While the gradual abolition bill may have prompted slaveholders to consider manumission, it was not the overall motivating force …
The F Street Mess : Southern Power In The Antebellum Senate And The Passage Of The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
The F Street Mess : Southern Power In The Antebellum Senate And The Passage Of The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
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