How to Use emancipation in a Sentence

emancipation

noun

• These acts of bravery helped pave the way for emancipation in the 1800s.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 1 Aug. 2023
• The first two achievements were emancipation in the Civil War and the civil rights laws of the 1960s.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
• Soul City makes a case for the importance of space to the project of Black emancipation—space to dream, space to grow.
  — Divya Subramanian, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
• The date marks the emancipation of people who had been enslaved in the United States.
  — Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
• The show traces a path from subjugation to emancipation by the last room.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• His father-in-law made provision in his will for the emancipation of the Custis slaves within five years.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
• The emancipation of slaves is central to the story of the American Civil War.
  — CNN, 26 July 2021
• Many reflect on the changes, or lack thereof, brought on by emancipation.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 28 Mar. 2021
• He is still revered as one of the first martyrs for Mexican emancipation.
  — Rodrigo Cervantes, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The film also explores the role property can play in a young man’s emancipation.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 May 2023
• The vote was merely one arrow in her quiver to bring about full emancipation for African Americans.
  — Marjoleine Kars, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
• After the war, Lee publicly conceded the loss and acknowledged that emancipation was the rule of law.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• This linked emancipation in the public minds with the restoration of the Union, paving the way for the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, which formally abolished slavery by 1865.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• When the label was born, the news around the world were the protests taking place around social injustice, inequities and women’s emancipation.
  — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2021
• Barrymore had won emancipation from her parents at the time, and stayed with the rocker and his family for two months.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2023
• For the second year, events in Maryland celebrated the day full emancipation reached some of the last enslaved Black people in Texas in 1865.
  — Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2023
• Suffrage figures in Jones’s account as just one episode in a much longer story of emancipation.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2020
• Adéagbo, who is now in his 80s, seems to have a deep understanding of the experience of what bondage could be, and of emancipation.
  — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
• But how can a man who was for much of his life a slave owner also be lauded in his own time for his work supporting emancipation?
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2020
• The holiday celebrates the emancipation of those enslaved in the US.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 19 June 2021
• Lee looks for artifacts related to emancipation, civil rights, the 1960s and the like.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• Juneteenth, a holiday in honor of one of the final acts of emancipation of the slaves in the U.S., will be celebrated later this month.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 12 June 2023
• The origins of West Indian carnival can be traced back to 1833, in Trinidad and Tobago, when the emancipation bill was passed.
  — Natalie Meade, Vogue, 14 July 2022
• There will be a bounce house for kids and an SDSU professor speaking on emancipation.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2022
• At last the deadly struggle ceased, and emancipation was declared.
  — al, 9 Feb. 2022
• The media has a short attention span, but one group will never take its eyes off the twin prizes of Spears' emancipation and broader probate court reform.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 26 June 2021
• When Dred Scott, who was born into slavery, sought emancipation after living in a free state in 1857, he was denied.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2021
• All of this is most likely why Claudia is now seeking emancipation.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 24 Aug. 2020
• During the Civil War, Texas was a refuge for enslavers evading emancipation.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• The sequence of films used footage of emancipation fighters, and contemporary scenes shot by Akomfrah himself bears witness to a story of Black poetry and strength in the face of displacement, migration, and racialization.
  — Simon Njami, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024