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Billarp's Letter on Emancipation and Civil War
A scholarly lecture outlines Georgia slavery from its beginnings to abolition, noting British and American efforts, regional tensions, and the Civil War. It cites key figures such as Wilberforce, Henry Clay, Lincoln, Grant, and local Georgia actors, arguing slavery's rise and fall shaped the state and nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Europe
South America
England
United States
Wilberforce
Tony
Wilberfores
National Treasury
Commonwealth
Joep Henry Tumpkin
Supreme Court
Emanc
Henry Clay
Kentucky
New England
William Loyd Garrison
Thoxtos
Arthur Pape Din
Tey
Lawa
Thu
Tronger
Free Hol
Nnion
Nathan'el Hawthorne
JBGL
Hostili
Touver Wayne
Woo
Bob
Justice Story
W. Story
Englad
Massachusetts
Rhode
Boston
New York
Brazil
Madagascar
Henry R. Jackson
Union
Liberia
Major Waters
Gwinnett County
Savannah
Colonization Society
Thoty
Pasage
Phila Sane
Howell Cobb
Alex H. Stephens
South
Toilors
North
Joe Brown
Bob Toombs
West
Grant
St. Louis
Lincoln
Fremont
Missouri
Hunter
South Carolina
Florida
Horace Greely
Cain
Abel
Napoleon