emancipation
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But without understanding the context of the Emancipation Proclamation, emancipation appears merely tactical—and not what Lincoln understood it to be: a moral reckoning carried out under extraordinary political and personal pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
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
While Southern whites—poor and rich alike—were utterly outraged by emancipation, there was no obvious solution to the dilemma they faced.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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