Emancipation

//ɪˌmæn.səˈpeɪ.ʃən//

"Emancipation" in a Sentence (11 examples)

She fought for the emancipation of women.

Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.

The islands' sugar industry was hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834.

The emancipation of the working class is the work of the working class itself.

His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders.

“Joseph Rainey is someone who can be described as the founding father of our nation,” said Bobby Donaldson, a history professor at the University of South Carolina. “He literally helped to rebuild this country in the aftermath of the Civil War and helped to envision a nation following emancipation during this extraordinary era called Reconstruction,” Donaldson told VOA.

The week before emancipation day the women love to wear a headdress.

They are people who will quest for emancipation.

Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!

As a result of the strengthening of ethnolinguistic emancipation since the second half of the twentieth century, North Saami now enjoys probably stronger legal and institutional support than any other “minor” Uralic language[.]

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US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

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