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work_x27kbde7vfdcjm7ziclzpfr2cm	Edward L. Ayers	Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South	2011.0	23	.pdf	application/pdf	8783	718	67	Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South president, legislatures, judges, and generals played crucial roles in ending slavery, as did enslaved people, who seized freedom at every opportunity. South Carolina and Georgia coast, Gen. David Hunter temporarily created a large potential zone of emancipation, assuming the authority to Emancipation also occurred at the scale of local action. state law protected slavery and the slave trade even while military practices undermined the institution. work with his troops and enslaved men and women to enact emancipation less fl amboyantly but more eff ectively than he had earlier in the war, valley changed the demographic pattern of slavery, enacting emancipation 1, The Destruction of Slavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, Roots of the American Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, the American Civil War, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu, the University of Richmond's 	./cache/work_x27kbde7vfdcjm7ziclzpfr2cm.pdf	./txt/work_x27kbde7vfdcjm7ziclzpfr2cm.txt