How to Use emancipation in a Sentence

emancipation

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  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 12 June 2023
  • 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

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