Meanings of compensated emancipation in English

He had urged a system of compensated emancipation for the border States.

The aggregate sum necessary for compensated emancipation of course would be large.

He had tried his best to move people toward compensated emancipation with colonization.

He was not unwilling to listen to plans of gradual and compensated emancipation.

The proposition of compensated emancipation was thirty years too late.

To the loyal slaveholders of the border states he made a proposal of compensated emancipation.

He preferred gradual, compensated emancipation followed by voluntary emancipation.

However, few slaves were interested even in compensated emancipation, and the plan received almost no support.

No other action of consequence then followed except a manifestation of interest in compensated emancipation in Missouri.

I suggested compensated emancipation; to which you replied you wished not to be taxed to buy negroes.

He recalled his own three appeals for compensated emancipation in 1862, all of which the leaders of the border states rebuffed.

Lincoln believed that Delaware, with its less than two thousand slaves, might prove to be the best test case for compensated emancipation.

In his next annual message, however, President Lincoln did not discuss the Emancipation Proclamation, but he renewed his argument for compensated emancipation.

He persuaded Congress to pass a bill promising Federal aid to any state which set forth a policy of gradual compensated emancipation.

In countermanding the order, Lincoln made another futile appeal to the people of the border States to adopt some plan of compensated emancipation.

He read to them a written argument in favor of compensated emancipation, the Federal government to assist the States in providing funds for the purpose.