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Emancipation

Related Names

Castelar y Ripoll, Emilio / Plaja (Cuban slaveholder)

Part of

Proyecto ensayo hispánico / Gómez-Martínez, José Luis

Related Inst.

University of Georgia : Dept. of Romance Languages

Release

Athens, Ga., © Jun 2002 (University of Georgia)

Extent

25 pages (ca. 980 KiB) : 33 illustr.

Last Visit

Jul 2, 2003.

Notes

Digital ed. based on: Diario de Sesiones de las Cortes Constituyentes (Spain), nos. 292-310 (May-June 1870).

Language

Spanish

Includes

• Draft of the law (28 May 1870)
• Amended draft (4 June 1870)
• Castelar's speech, full version
• Castelar's speech, historical abridged version
• Castelar's amendment calling for immediate emancipation
• Plaja's speech
• Introduction by the editor

Description

Page dedicated to Castelar's parliamentary speech. The texts are accompanied by material illustrating New World slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. – Part of a site dedicated to the teaching of the Spanish-language essay. The creator is professor of romance languages at the University of Georgia.

Part of

Base de datos políticos de las Américas / Georgetown University, and Organization of American States

Release

Washington, D. C., 1998 (Georgetown University)

Extent

1 page (ca. 10 KiB)

Last Visit

Jun 6, 2003.

Language

English | Spanish

Description

Articles from the constitutions of 10 American states in the original languages.

Part of

Rally on the High Ground. The National Park Service Symposium on the Civil War, chap. 7 (Links to the Past. Cultural Resources) / United States Department of the Interior : National Park Service

Release

Washington, D. C., last update May 2001

Extent

1 page (ca. 156 KiB) : 2 illustr.

Last Visit

Mar 30, 2004.

Notes

Contribution to a symposium held at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C., in May 2000. – Includes references and discussion protocol. – The author is a professor of history at Columbia University, New York.

Language

English

Related Inst.

Library of Congress : Rare Book & Special Collections Division / Library of Congress : Manuscript Division

Part of

American Treasures of the Library of Congress. An Ongoing Exhibit / Library of Congress

Release

Washington, D. C., Dec 2002

Extent

5 pages (ca. 130 KiB) : 11 illustr.

Last Visit

Aug 19, 2003.

Technical Notes

Scanned page images in JPEG format.

Notes

Originally published Washington: Government Printing Office, 1 January 1863. – With brief introductions to the Proclamation and the accompanying documents.

Language

English

Includes

• Lincoln, Abraham: First draft of the proclamation (22 July 1862)
• _____: Final draft of the proclamation (1 Jan. 1863)
• _____: Letter to A. G. Hodges (4 April 1864)

Related Names

Rowland, Leslie S. (co-ed./project dir.) et al.

Release

College Park, Md., last revised Jun 2003 (University of Maryland)

Extent

49 pages (ca. 1.0 MiB) : 16 illustr.

Last Visit

Jul 1, 2003.

Language

English

Description

The project, begun in 1976, prepares print editions of primary sources documenting emancipation in the United States. The site lists publications of the project and its collaborators and offers sample documents as well as a timeline.

Related Inst.

Hull City Council
Wilberforce 2007 | Hull

Release

Hull, Engl., n. d., online since Jul 2006 (University of Hull)

Extent

30 pages (ca. 1.7 MiB) : 17 illustr., 2 PDF docs., 8 MS Word docs.

Last Visit

Sep 12, 2006.

Language

English

Includes

• Mission Statement
• People
• Conferences
• Ph.D. Program
• M.A. Program in Modern Slavery Studies, post-1500
• M.A. Program in Diversity, Culture and Identity
• M.A. Program in Criminology and Human Rights

Description

Mission Statement: "WISE is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to the pursuit of world-class research in the areas of slavery, emancipation, human rights, and social justice, historically and in the contemporary world. It seeks to provide a forum for academic discourse and interaction, to advance academic knowledge and public understanding of historical and contemporary debates, to inform policy change and the campaigns of activists, and to work with others to generate knowledge transfer."

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