26984 words

emancipation

3 definitions • 3 examples
1
the process of giving people social or political freedom and rights:

Examples:

women's/female emancipation
black emancipation
2
the act of freeing a person from another person's control:

Examples:

emancipation from slavery
3
The Emancipation Proclamation, made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, freed slaves in the southern American states during the US Civil War.

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