emancipation

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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

Maybe it’s the emancipation of women in the last 50 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

For the first 15 months of the Civil War, Douglass filled lecture halls and newspapers with the same plea: Make emancipation the central aim.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Full emancipation for enslaved people in the British Empire, excluding some exceptions like the East India Company, was granted by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

To Madison, the only viable plan was gradual, compensated emancipation.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis