emancipation
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Mr. Pinsker attaches much importance to that effort, noting that it emboldened military enforcement of emancipation and Congressional support for black recruitment.
Less attention has been paid to the ways in which enslaved people strove for emancipation through acts of resistance.
A pragmatic realist, he stopped short of calling for immediate emancipation, which he knew was unacceptable to most American voters.
But Iranians have never remained satisfied with national bargains in which they forfeit political rights for economic dividends or social emancipation.
Most Spanish American republics had ended slavery or implemented gradual emancipation measures as early as 1811, with final abolition in place by the mid-1850s.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
