disenthralled

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The other occurred in 1804, twelve years after the slaves had disenthralled themselves.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

Commerce and agriculture, disenthralled by the influences of free institutions, will cause the new empire to spring into life, full armed, like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter.

From Handbook to the new Gold-fields by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

From the hill-tops and the valleys the cry of a disenthralled people went upward, like the sound of many waters: 'Glory to God!

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

I have been to England, and I saw some of your redeemed, regenerated, disenthralled people—I saw features on women's faces that haunted me afterward in my dreams.

From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)

But by the time that he has just disenthralled himself, he is removed, and another appointed in his place, and the work has to commence de novo.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick