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It was not the planters in the British islands or in the French islands who organized emancipation, but the distant governments across the sea, far removed from local prejudice, which at last forbade the outrage.
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Sumner points out that emancipation was often imposed by distant governments rather than local planters, challenging the narrative of local agency.
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