Recollections of My Life and Reflections on Times and Events During It: A Memoir by Father W. J. Howlett

New York emancipates slaves

"General emancipation was also beginning to be agitated, but this was not of great interest yet in New York, for this State had emancipated its slaves in 1827 and was not greatly interested in the domestic affairs of other states."

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