walker dies. 1830, assoon after in nearest we can tell from tuberculosis, but his ideas are picked up by , most notably by william lloyd garrison. of immediate emancipation uncompensated to ofveholders becomes the call the abolitionist movement. i do not have to rehearse the history of the abolitionist movement here, i suspect. many people know it. i will be happy to talk more about it. emancipation, i asked the question, if we think of emancipation as a near 100 year process between the revolution and the passage of , how shouldndment we understand it? what is the glue which holds that long emancipation together. emancipation, i argued there are four things which hold it together. is first and most important the fact that black people are always in the lead. thisare always taking and pressing it forward , unlike white abolitionists they are not willing to compromise on the question of emancipation, not willing to compromise on gradual emancipation. they are not willing to compromise on questions of colonization. all the various compromises which are built into the long history of opp