His efforts toward the abolition of slavery include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging the border states to outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the black slaves nationwide in December 1865.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.

Unless one is completely freed of all material desires, which are caused by the dense darkness of ignorance, one cannot fully engage in the devotional service of the Lord.

In the process, the whole Church emerged freed from the grip of all lay lords.

The Sultan of Zanzibar complied with British demands that slavery be banned in Zanzibar and that all the slaves be freed.

He freed all his slaves by his final 1799 will.

About 1841 he had freed himself from all the burden of manual labour, and could occupy his thoughts with the dialect of his native district, Sunnmøre ; his first publication was a small collection of folk songs in the Sunnmøre dialect ( 1843 ).

However, the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the 1865 Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution freed all remaining slaves in rebel states long before the death of his wife in 1891.

One Buddhist legend from the Complete Tale of Guanyin and the Southern Seas () presents Guanyin as vowing to never rest until she had freed all sentient beings from the samsara or reincarnation.

Days after Stalin's death on 5 March, Beria freed all the arrested doctors, announced that the entire matter was fabricated, and arrested the MGB functionaries directly involved.

The law limited the rights of slave-holders, ensured that freed blacks held the same rights as other Frenchmen in the islands, and required that all slaves be baptised as Catholics.

In 1985 the Queensland Government attempted to terminate the proceedings by enacting the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act 1985, which declared that on annexation of the islands in 1879, title to the islands was vested in the state of Queensland " freed from all other rights, interests and claims whatsoever ".

In the matrix, Case hears inhuman laughter, a trait associated with Pauley during Case's work with his ROM construct, thus suggesting that Pauley was not erased after all, but instead worked out a side deal with Wintermute / Neuromancer to be freed from the construct so he could exist in the matrix.

Perhaps worst of all, the nearby silver mines were totally disrupted, with as many as 20, 000 Athenian slaves freed by the Spartan hoplites at Decelea.

" Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called ...

When, in Buddhahood, one is freed from all mental obscurations, one is said to attain a state of continuous bliss mixed with a simultaneous cognition of emptiness, the true nature of reality.

According to Vasari, at their prompting in 1423 Masaccio travelled to Rome with Masolino: from that point he was freed of all Gothic and Byzantine influence, as may be seen in his altarpiece for the Carmelite Church in Pisa.

The treaty called for the Californios to give up their artillery, and provided that all prisoners from both sides be immediately freed.

By 1985, all three were members of the Defenders, whose monthly series was shortly canceled, which freed the trio.

He also explains the resurrection ; that the body lies in the grave and the spirit either in torment or in a state of paradise, and that without Christ there could be no resurrection, and that because of Christ all men will be resurrected with their spirit being freed from either paradise or torment and their body raised from the grave, and then they are judged according to their works in life.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people.

The slave trade would be outlawed in Bermuda in 1807, and all slaves were freed in 1834.

Smith, is dedicated to his memory, Clay's Will freed all the slaves he held.

An American diplomat Richard Lynch reported back to Washington in 1954 that public opinion in West Germany was all for freeing Raeder and the rest of the men convicted in Nuremberg, and until the admirals in Spandau were freed, " the feelings does exist and ... until some way can be found to overcome it, a future German Navy will not have the support of its former officers ".

Abu Bakr felt compassion for slaves, so he purchased eight slaves ( four men and four women ) and then freed them, paying 40, 000 dinar for their freedom.

In the 1860 United States Census the slave population in the United States had grown to four million, and in Reconstruction after the Civil War ( late 1860s ) the newly freed slaves became citizens with ( in the case of men ) a nominal right to vote.

It proclaims the freedom of 3. 1 million of the nation's four million slaves, and immediately frees 50, 000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.

Furthermore, the effect of abolition was gradual ; the freed slaves were not absolutely manumitted, but instead entered a form of forced apprenticeship which lasted four years for house slaves and six years for field slaves.

On 19 December that year, at Southend Crown Court, he was imprisoned for four months ( being freed after half of his sentence on 15 February 1991 ) but after being released, his alcoholism continued and he was involved in further alcohol-related incidents, including playing through a match during the 1993 – 94 season despite being drunk, falling down stairs and needing 29 stitches to a head wound when drunk, and letting off fire extinguishers and firing a flare gun into a disabled lavatory with team-mate Ray Parlour at Pizza Hut in Hornchurch where they were being taunted by supporters of rival clubs.

In February 1969 Gil and Veloso were arrested by the Brazilian military government, brought from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, and spent three months in prison and another four under house arrest, before being freed on the condition that they leave the country.

Judge Death would escape several other times, with the most significant being when the Joker ( see below ) dimension-jumped to Mega-City One and freed the four prisoners when they were being transferred to a more secure prison.

After spending ten years in prison, four on Death Row, Krone was freed after DNA conclusively proved that he was innocent.

When Rollie reaches the level exit, a hollow log to be exact, the players score is tallied based on the number of ladybugs freed, the number of clovers found, and if all four pieces of the blue clover has been found.

With the space freed by the academy's merger, the school began to offer additional four year programs.

With the aid of Burgos, Buencamino was freed four months later, only to be told that having missed school for four months, he would have to find a tutor who would help him make up for the classes he missed.

It also includes four other playable characters that must be freed in each home world, Sheila the Kangaroo, Sgt.

The TPLF was able to establish their presence with a raid on the jail in Shire on the morning of 5 August 1975, in which they freed their captured comrade Mehari Tekle (" Mussie ") and 60 other prisoners ( including convicted criminals ), then a month later on the afternoon of 4 September when they robbed the bank in Axum, in which four policemen were killed and 175, 000 Birr ( equivalent to US $ 84, 000 ), and substantial arms and ammunition were stolen at the cost of one fighter wounded.

After being freed four years later, he helped found the El Islah Oual Irchad ( Reform and Guidance ) charitable association with Mohammed Bouslimani, as well as the Islamic Preaching League with Ahmed Sahnoun, uniting major figures of the Algerian Islamist movement such as Abbassi Madani and Mohammed Said.

While Megatron used only a couple of Mini-Cons to enhance his troops and take over the capital Cyber City, the four free Minis breached the Decepticon headquarters ' defenses and freed the remaining captives, retreating to the Air Defense Team's junkyard base where a starship waited to take them all off-world and out of Megatron's reach.

Although Jefferson never responded to the rumors, historians believe that his freeing of the four Hemings ' children as they came of age is significant: he let Beverly ( a male ) and his sister Harriet Hemings " escape " in 1822 from Monticello, and freed two by his will in 1826, although he was heavily in debt.

The committee also shortened the president's term from seven years to four years, freed the president to seek re-election after an initial term, and moved impeachment trials from the courts to the Senate.

The incident occurred when a failure of the braking system caused a moving train to collide with a stationary one, trapping four riders in the carriages who were later freed by fire-fighters.

After the havan-yagna is over, the sheep is freed with decorated ornaments, food and clothing ’ s and the other offerings are dischared. When, the sheep with four Horns take birth, then the Nanda Devi Raj Jaat is planned. People also celebrate the annual Nanda Jaat. The Raj Jaat procession goes from all villages, where there is a Nanda Devi temple of recognition, specially at Koti a night halt of the participants is planned, where throughout the night worship and celebrations goes on.

But Weldon did return with direct communication between the Iraqi Prime Minister to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the promise that four detained journalists would be freed.

Cécile Brossard was freed on parole in November 2010, after spending five years in detention ( including four years while awaiting trial ).

In 1829 he freed four aboriginal women and a boy from John Batman's house where they had been held for a year.