emancipated
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The author then moves on to Britain, which emancipated itself through the Protestant Reformation and became what he calls a “property despotism.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The group’s name derives from Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s unfulfilled promise to grant some emancipated slaves “40 acres and a mule” to help them start over after the Civil War.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024
Her third great-grandfather Dean Harris was likely born into slavery in Georgia around 1835 and was emancipated after the Civil War.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2024
I’m happy to be able to say that to be emancipated from shame has been genuinely the biggest achievement of my life.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023
Most of the students were children of immigrant Jews who preferred to regard themselves as having been emancipated from the fenced-off ghetto mentality typical of the other Jewish parochial schools in Brooklyn.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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