The speech of Charles Jas. Faulkner, (of Berkley) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the policy of the state with respect to her slave population
1832
Faulkner, Charles James, 1847-1929
Faulkner's speech explaining the resolution he had recently proposed to gradually emancipate the enslaved people in Virginia. States that emancipation will benefit the state, and that it is inevitable, so should be accepted sooner rather than later...
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