emancipation

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The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Maybe it’s the emancipation of women in the last 50 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, Northern states began gradual emancipation, making slavery a sectional institution dividing North from South.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Full emancipation for enslaved people in the British Empire, excluding some exceptions like the East India Company, was granted by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

The subject of slavery was introduced because some of the counties, alarmed by the Nat Turner insurrection, had petitioned for the gradual emancipation of the slaves or for abolition of slavery.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry