emancipation
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Edmond Albius devised the hand-pollination technique that made vanilla cultivation commercially viable; he died in poverty after emancipation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Those who made up what Ms. Gibson calls the great resistance ultimately drove the movement toward emancipation for the millions yearning to be free.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
Most Spanish American republics had ended slavery or implemented gradual emancipation measures as early as 1811, with final abolition in place by the mid-1850s.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026
The exceptions were New York and New Jersey, which, not incidentally, remained the only northern states to resist the passage of gradual emancipation laws.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing emancipation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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American History I
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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