How to Use emancipation in a Sentence

emancipation

noun

• Some held onto their former slaves by not telling them about emancipation.
  — Rodney Brooks, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• The long-term legality of wartime emancipation was also not entirely clear.
  — John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• At the very least, emancipation had done nothing to prohibit slavery in the South after the fighting finished.
  — John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• Their language of emancipation has been adopted more broadly by the American public.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 19 July 2019
• In the days after emancipation, black businesses flourished.
  — Anthonia Akitunde, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2019
• The groups argued that the new law would strip youth of their right to form their families and eliminate one of the only pathways to exit the foster care system through emancipation.
  — Elaisha Stokes, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
• That book was about the suffering and emancipation of enslaved Americans from the middle to the end of the nineteenth century.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 July 2019
• Saudi Arabia has taken tentative steps towards the emancipation of women in recent years.
  — Nick Watt and Jason Kravarik, CNN, 17 Aug. 2019
• Those exceptions include youth with legal emancipation, parental consent or judicial approval.
  — Elaisha Stokes, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Unlike many of her peers, who saw access to professional careers as the best route to emancipation, Eastman did not believe capitalism could solve the deeper problems in the home.
  — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
• This message of emancipation spread throughout the state of Texas and to the rest of the South.
  — Michiel Perry Of Black Southern Belle, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2020
• 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
• Even worse, they were kept ignorant of their emancipation for over two and a half years.
  — Marcia L. Fudge, Fortune, 19 June 2020
• 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
• The discussion comes on Juneteenth, which celebrates the day slaves learned of their emancipation in Texas in 1865 at the end of the Civil War.
  — Dallas News, 18 June 2020
• 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 book, written by Debbie Levy, traces the song's roots from slavery to emancipation to Jim Crow to the civil rights era and into today.
  — Patricia McKnight, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2020
• If Wade was the motor of a more aggressive warfare, Stevens was the tribune of black emancipation.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when news of emancipation reached people in Galveston, Texas, after the Civil War.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 18 June 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
• During the Civil War, Texas was a refuge for enslavers evading emancipation.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
• In Europe, emancipation was often conditioned on cleaving the citizen from the Jew.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024