11.   After the slaves were freed, my ancestors walked from Arkansas to East Texas and built the homestead outside Jefferson, where my grandmother lived until she died.

12.   But his ordinance freed the slaves without making slave ownership illegal.

13.   He also freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation, and the Fourteenth Amendment gave the ex-negroes citizenship.

14.   He created Civil Service, but he authored no great documents on democracy, freed no slaves, uttered no immortal words.

15.   Hastening the scheming against him is his insistence on freeing the slaves and lightening the overall oppression.

16.   He freed his slaves in his will and disapproved of slavery.

17.   He freed the slaves.

18.   He thought that blacks were probably mentally inferior to whites, and that the two races could not live together in harmony if the slaves were freed.

19.   He steered the nation through the Civil War, boldly fought to free the slaves and was not bashful about pressing against perceived public opinion.

20.   In Louisiana, the rules by which a slave could be freed changed often and were often difficult or expensive to comply with.