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emancipation

noun as in freedom

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Last year, the 11 members of Omega X won emancipation from their contract following allegations of "unwarranted treatment" by their label.

From BBC

In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln elevated the logic and language of the Declaration of Independence to justify a Union victory, the emancipation of slaves and equality before the law as central to America’s purpose.

In this regard, she and Helaena hew closer to traditional medieval mysticism, which did not typically use sex for religious emancipation, rather than the practices ascribed to some of the more esoteric heretical sects.

From Salon

For decades after emancipation, Black men were rounded up — often for petty crimes — and put to work under brutal conditions during the convict leasing era.

Because as Marx started to study natural sciences later in the 1850s and 1860s, he came to realize the development of technologies in capitalism actually don't create a condition for emancipation of the working class.

From Salon

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