Emancipation and The Ending of Slavery
See Wikipedia's Emancipation Proclamation Article
Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, with the ratification of the 13th Amendment. In 1868, the 14th Amendment extended citizenship rights to African Americans. For examples of female resistance see Wikipedia's articles on Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Tubman.
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Famous quotes containing the words emancipation and, emancipation and/or slavery:
“... women learned one important lesson—namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women’s feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
—John Adams (1735–1826)
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
—Anaïs Nin (1903–1977)