Blacks were fundamental in engendering anti-slavery and emancipation sentiment in the north. True political emancipation, for Bauer, requires the abolition of religion. Neither Kentucky nor Missouri was declared in rebellion in Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. During the 1780s Washington privately expressed his support for gradual emancipation of slaves. Few phrenologists argued against the emancipation of the slaves. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. The nobility was too weak to oppose the emancipation of the serfs. Until that is abolished, Declarations of Independence and Acts of Emancipation are in vain. This resulted in 777 petitions being delivered to parliament demanding the total emancipation of slaves. Napoleon had ordered the emancipation of Jews throughout territories under French hegemony. Wilson simply haunt me with their importunities for a Proclamation of Emancipation. Abolitionists demanded "immediate" emancipation not a slow-acting containment. Grey was also noted for advocating Parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation. He demanded that slaveowners repent and start the process of emancipation. This was decades after the Civil War, emancipation, and the Reconstruction era.