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Gradual emancipation (United States)
Mechanism used in order to abolish slavery / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gradual emancipation was a legal mechanism used by some states to abolish slavery over some time, such as An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery of 1780 in Pennsylvania.[1]
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