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| | Elihu's Antislavery Papers |
 | | Others are more viable than is commonly supposed.”[4] The story of Elihu Embree is one such theory “more viable than is commonly supposed.” As a Quaker, former slave owner, visionary, and radical, his story unearths the intricacies of the southern contingency of the antislavery movement in the United States. |
 | | Nonetheless, it is known that Elihu’s grandparents, Moses III and Margaret (Elleman), and their family moved between 1769 and 1783to Orange County, North Carolina,(now Telford, Tennessee, in Washington County – the eastern most section of current day Tennessee and the future place of Elihu’s antislavery activity). |
 | | In 1809 Elihu sold the slaves, who were members of a single family, but in1812 he bought the family back with the intent to free them with “considerable financial sacrifice.”[47] Although he freed many of the slaves he kept a female and her children until the end of his life. |
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