| Since support of the Confederacy now meant supporting the institution of slavery, there was no possibility of European intervention. |
| It was not until 1837, however, that the state's first legislature passed a comprehensive slave code to regulate slaves, slavery, and free blacks. |
| The slave code adopted in 1798 and modified from time to time presented in considerable detail the legal aspects of slavery in the state. |
| Until Haiti, abolitionists focused on either gradual emancipation, or simply ending the slave trade, not slavery itself. |
| His soul tried to escape the oppression of this cosmic mechanism, and to leave the slavery of Ananke. |
| Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal. |
