When the organized anti-slavery movement in the United States began in the late 1700s, what was meant by the concept of gradual emancipation?
a. Gradual emancipation was meant to give the freed slaves plenty of time to assimilate into society by gradually releasing them from property status.
b. Advocates of gradual emancipation believed that by preventing the extension of slavery to new areas and relocating emancipated slaves outside of the U.S., slavery would eventually die out.
c. Gradual emancipation referred to outright abolition of slavery, but only in one state at a time.
d. Gradual emancipation meant a quick and decisive abolition of slavery, and was called “progressive” because it indicated an immediate step forward.
e. Gradual emancipation meant that the states, due to their inability to eliminate slavery, would surrender sovereignty to the federal government in order to abolish slavery.
ANS: B
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