📅 11 Sèptèmber 1871
The Senate’s recorded session belongs to the final legislative debate over the free-birth bill. As the proposal moved through the upper chamber, enslaved mothers’ family bonds were discussed in a...
📅 14 Sèptèmber 1871
The Senate annals record debate on the measure. Parliamentary discussion recognized questions of maternal and family rights while seeking to protect the slaveholding order from sudden change. The...
📅 15 Sèptèmber 1871
A further Senate session considered the emancipation bill before its passage later that month. The law’s supporters framed gradualism as humane and orderly; its limits left enslaved women’s...
