Gradual emancipation is a phased legal process that slowly ends slavery over time, often by freeing future-born children of enslaved people. Used by several Northern U.S. states in the late 1700s, it balanced moral reform with economic stability, benefiting abolitionists and slaveholders while delaying full freedom for enslaved communities.
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