Gradual Emancipation

Famous quotes containing the words gradual and/or emancipation:

“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, . . .”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
—John Adams (1735–1826)