Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

by Beverley B. Munford

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See Life of Matthew F. Maury, Corbin, p. 131.

XXIII

Some of the Almost Insuperable Difficulties

which Embarrassed Every Plan of

Emancipation

The problems and difficulties which beset emancipation in Virginia may be summarized as follows:

First: The legal rights of the slaveholders and their creditors;

Second: The moral and physical well-being of the slaves; and

Third: The political and social interests of the state.