emancipation
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The Slavery Abolition Act became British law in 1834, during a century that would see worldwide emancipations thanks to the efforts of enslaved people and abolitionists.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
In 1777, at the time of the first emancipations in the revolutionary American north, a group of emancipated African people wrote to the Massachusetts legislature.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2020
Partly from fear of the Saint Domingue example, antislavery idealism began to falter after the first wave of post-Revolutionary emancipations.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Barton says Jefferson could not free them because by 1826, when Jefferson died, the law forbade such emancipations.
From Salon • May 31, 2012
It took, I will not say its pleasures, but even its emancipations, sadly.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Vocabulary lists containing emancipation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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American History I
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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