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emancipate

verb as in set free

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Bynes' home environment was so troubling that she attempted to emancipate from her parents.

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Bynes' home environment was so troubling that she attempted to emancipate from her parents when she was around 16 or 17.

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Struggling under piles of debt and in ill health, an aging Madison resolved to emancipate “his people.”

Lafayette had already attempted without success to convince George Washington to emancipate his slaves and allow them to live in freedom on an island Lafayette offered to purchase.

Neither Jefferson nor his heirs could afford to emancipate anyone besides the children of Sally Hemings.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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