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Q: People who fought for emancipation of the slaves and to end the slave trade?
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What were the economic implications for emancipation serfs and slaves?

Serfs were slaves and not a different group of people ( serf is Latin for slave). In the middle ages there was no emancipation for these people.


What is The freeing of individual slaves?

Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing their slaves.


What is the freeing of slaves called?

to manumit or the act of manumission is a slave owner setting their slaves free.


How did slaves and many free people fight the system of slavery?

The slaves and free people fought the system of slavery in riots, protests, boycotts, and acts of violence. They also fought against the south and slave owners until slaves were freed.


What is the freeing of enslaved people called?

The freeing of enslaved people is called emancipation.


How did the emancipation proclamation affect the slave owners?

The slave owners had to do all of the work themselves instead of having slaves do it for them.


Why did the emancipation of slaves proceed very slowly in the northern states?

Priority was often given to the slave holder's property rights, and because of this emancipation was spaced out over several slave generations.


Freed slave abolitionist lawyer?

Freed slaves abolitionist lawyer fought against slave trade.


What does emancipation proclamatiob do?

The emancipation proclamation gave all slaves still living in slave states their freedom. It was issued in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.


What happened to Northern slaves when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued?

That would mean slaves in the Border states - slave-states that had voted against joining the Confederacy. Those people would have to remain slaves until the war was won, as Lincoln did not want to upset powerful slave-owners in these crucially important states.


What wartime act by Abraham Lincoln freed those slave living in rebellious states?

The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln's wartime act that freed slaves.


Why did Lincoln only include certain slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation?

Because he was keen not to upset the people of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware - slave states that had stayed loyal.