But the 'emancipationist' sees this in a very different light. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The notion that Lee was an emancipationist, however, is complete nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.] Reference
Yet at its moment of triumph, this emancipationist vision was yielding to the thirst for reconciliation. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering and Forgetting] Reference
It was first made by Mr. Barnes, or Dr. Channing, or some other learned emancipationist, and after them by Mr. Sumner. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
They have not yet found a comparable party of Iranians, however minuscule, to defend the theory of the emancipationist bombing of Iran. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: One More War, Please] Reference
Blight outlines three main forms of Civil War memory, all of which fostered their own master narratives: emancipationist, mainly characteristic of. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering and Forgetting] Reference
Inkle and Yarico was a deliberately emancipationist work and its enormous popularity helped to mobilize the abolitionist cause led by Wilberforce. 6. From Wordnik.com. [Savage Boundaries] Reference
But to call him an emancipationist when he voluntarily delayed freeing 200 slaves because it wasn't in HIS interests to do so is positively Orwellian. From Wordnik.com. [Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.] Reference
He was a pronounced emancipationist, although he never expected to see the overthrow of slavery, which it was his good fortune to witness, as his life was spared until the twenty-seventh of October. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884] Reference
J. Hampden Pleasants, who was at heart an emancipationist. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney,] Reference
I took him to be an immediate emancipationist, perhaps peculiar in his views. From Wordnik.com. [The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)] Reference
But Gordon Brown does it in an apologetic 19th-century emancipationist kind of way. From Wordnik.com. [Cranmer] Reference
He is for no half-measures, -- he avows himself a free-soiler, an emancipationist, an abolitionist, a colonizationist. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference
It was this experience that first taught me the inherent evils of slavery, although I had always been a gradual emancipationist. From Wordnik.com. [The story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863,] Reference
Enclosed by the seat and chairs is a biggish rectangle marble umber fare in a business caliginous emancipationist marble convolution. From Wordnik.com. [amp; Pressemeldungen kostenlos] Reference
Clay, an emancipationist and a U.S. Ambassador to Russia, is the seventh honoree on the walk, which was created last year with an inaugural group of six. From Wordnik.com. [The Richmond Register Homepage] Reference
Sadly, that dream would be deferred 100 years as a coalition of white supremacists North and South conspired to keep the emancipationist vision in check. From Wordnik.com. [The Moderate Voice] Reference
He is an out-and-out immediate emancipationist, -- believes that is the only way to break the strength of the South; that the black man is the life of the. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Sketches] Reference
Humber was also an emancipationist in his views of slave-holding, and often said that if a position could be secured suitable for emancipated slaves he would gladly set his slaves free. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler]
After the outbreak of hostilities, he was an officer in the Kansas "Lane Brigade" under the anti-slavery general Jim Lane, whose forces adopted an emancipationist policy far before the rest of the Union Army. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
He was a gradual emancipationist. From Wordnik.com. [What They Fought For, 1861-1865] Reference
Come, be a practical emancipationist to the extent of your ability; set the South an example; break every yoke. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)] Reference
American emancipationist. From Wordnik.com. [Nothingandall] Reference
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