enfranchisement

noun

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1
as in emancipation
the act of setting free from slavery the Emancipation Proclamation was merely the first step in the full enfranchisement of African-Americans

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as in suffrage
the right to formally express one's position or will in an election a time when enfranchisement was limited to white males who owned property

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  1. emancipation
  2. suffrage
  3. liberation
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  • This is a very important point for Lila, because the emancipation of women plays a pivotal role in Elena Ferrante’s books.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • After emancipation from slavery, freed people had no right nor access to land.
    Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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  • The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when early suffragette leaders like Cady Stanton organized the first women’s rights convention in the United States in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team.
    Maya Homan, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
  • There is also wisdom to be learned in the songs and traditions of past movements, when people banded together — for civil rights, for women’s suffrage — and found ways to keep hope alive against all odds.
    Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
Definition of suffrage
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  • The city’s ties to the West Indies also seemed hopeful for starting a college that could advance the global liberation movement, the proposal said.
    Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Heritage’s early years are often said to have been focused on economics, rather than anti-LGBTQ+ activism, as the U.S. gay liberation movement itself had just begun gathering steam a few years prior.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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