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In this case, again, the question of affranchisement will have made vast strides.

From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)

The number of free men is very considerable; the Spanish laws and customs being favourable to affranchisement.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

Then, after the substitution of the Rosa mystica for the mystic lily, tentatively there began an affranchisement of communes, of women and of thought.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

If affranchisement produced the destruction of planting in St. Domingo, we know now the reason.

From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)

And all these edicts had but one aim: to sweeten servitude, to increase affranchisement by law, to facilitate voluntary emancipation.

From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)