An interesting document by Kentucky Presbyterian divine, Robert J. Breckinridge. Breckinridge shared in moderate abolitionist sympathies it seems, but was a pragmatist. He knew Kentuckians would not vote to simply emancipate slaves who were the source of their present financial well-being. Charles Hodge had hoped they could be persuaded to allow slaves to purchase their own freedom, but they seemed resistant. Instead, Breckinridge offered "prospective emancipation," which was essentially a plan to have the children of slaves emancipated, but then, if we understand correctly, deported to Liberia. Hodge agreed and publicly supported the plan.
Breckinridge, Robert J. A System of Prospective Emancipation, Advocated in Kentucky, by Robert J. Breckinridge, D. D., and Urged and Supported in the Princeton Review, in Article VI.,- October 1849. Examined by A Presbyterian in the Far South. Charleston, S. C. Steam-Powered Press of Walker & James. 1850. 23pp.
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