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With some success, he emerged as a leader in the nascent British Jewish emancipation movement<ref>[[Emancipation of the Jews in the United Kingdom]]</ref> He pursued activist, public relationships with Christians to advance Jewish emancipation.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} He wrote and publicly spoke to ever growing Jewish and Christian audiences. It was a radical departure from the reticent, Jewish low profile historically practiced in Christian lands.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} The Jewish emancipation movement he was associated with disbanded a few years later.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} Full British Jewish emancipation would not be achieved until 1867 when Jews were granted the right to vote. Levy departed Britain, late in 1828.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
The second social movement that Levy became associated with in London was allied with the developing Evangelical community.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} They were ardent abolitionists. Abolitionism in Britain was reaching the zenith of its political influence in the
With some success, he emerged as a leader in the nascent British Jewish emancipation movement. He pursued activist, public relationships with Christians to advance Jewish emancipation. He wrote and publicly spoke to ever growing Jewish and Christian audience.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} It was a radical departure from the reticent Jewish low profile historically practiced in Christian lands. The Jewish emancipation movement he was associated with disbanded a few years later. Full British Jewish emancipation would not be achieved until 1867 when Jews were granted the right to vote. Levy departed Britain, late in 1828.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
The second social movement that Levy became associated with was the developing Evangelical community, who were ardent abolitionists. [[Abolitionism]] in Britain was reaching the zenith of its political influence in the
Writing an anonymous tract, ''Italic text''A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery''Italic text'',<ref>A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, Consistently with the interests of all Parties concerned, by Moses Elias Levy Edited by Chris Monaco, Wacahoota Press, Micanopy, Fl. 1999</ref> which was published and circulated in 1828 in Britain, Levy called for the gradual abolition of slavery. Children of slave unions were to be communally cared for and were not to be inheritable property but free.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} To ameliorate the inherent racial animus created by slavery, he proposed that white criminals being transported by Britain to Australia be settled in the slave areas to serve their time. They would be encouraged to intermarry with Blacks and create a mulatto<ref>[[Mulatto]]</ref> community that would combine the best elements of both racial groups.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} The children would be educated in free public schools. Free public education for Blacks, slave or otherwise, was a radical idea in the
Levy was feted by the British Abolition community as a major public speaker on the subject.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} He was the first Jew to publicly address the British public on the evils of slavery. However, in the United States, Levy presented himself very differently. Within the Florida slave planter community, Levy was already considered eccentric.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} Out of fear for his physical and economic survival, he kept his views on slavery very private.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} The societal and economic ambitions of his son David exacerbated Levy’s pragmatism.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
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