The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

The government has relieved 2,487 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in the province of Pampanga of over PHP206 million in ...

ST. THOMAS, Nov. 11.--A new Emancipation act has been introduced in the Brazilian Parliament favoring an earlier liberation of slaves. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The Act of Union, took effect on 1st January 1801 ... What’s more, Catholic emancipation (i.e. freedom from discrimination) is being discussed in Britain, and they’re worried.