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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, ordered that enslaved people living in rebellious territories be released from the bonds of ownership and made free people—their own masters. Though the proclamation's initial impact was limited, the order was true to the etymology of emancipation, which comes from a Latin word combining the prefix e-, meaning "away," and mancipare, meaning "to transfer ownership of.”
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Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
Swanson’s book displays little interest in slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
These thinkers worried that by embracing ideals of emancipation and continual improvement, liberalism could devolve into totalitarianism.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
They were infuriated that tech companies, abiding by federal law, effectively give kids online emancipation from their parents at the arbitrary and absurdly young age of thirteen and, even then, barely bother with age verification.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
After chronicling their perilous and frightening 45-day voyage, the author goes on to describe the sale of the 103 survivors of the journey to various enslavers in Alabama, their five years of bondage, and their hardscrabble lives following emancipation.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024
Between May 1864 and June 1865, the island was used as a refugee camp for the freed Black people who flocked to Washington following emancipation.
—Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
The identity crisis that men have been experiencing in the face of women’s increasing emancipation.
—Luba Kassova, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
This collection will always give me the vitality of the women of that time, their fight for emancipation, their dreams and their attitude in a country, Italy, full of enthusiasm for the cinematic approach of Visconti, Fellini, and Monica Vitti.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
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“Emancipation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emancipation. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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