Why did many antislavery societies focus on gradual emancipation rather than immediate emancipation?
A) Northern states had successfully passed plans for gradual emancipation.
B) Many thought that under immediate emancipation, whites would lose their place at the top of the racial hierarchy.
C) Some antislavery groups thought that immediate emancipation would ignore older slaves.
D) Antislavery societies actually focused on immediate emancipation from the very beginning.
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