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Book Review: Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War

Book Review: Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War

In the summer of 1857, abolitionist Rev. John Rankin, at a meeting of the National Emancipation Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, advocated for compensated emancipation as the only viable way to end slavery in the United States. “Life was more precious than money, and… freedom was more precious than money,” Rankin stated.[1] While it is true that the value of life and freedom is incalculable, not...

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