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What does emancipation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
  2. The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
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Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
But the ultimate example of Lincoln's constitutional scruples was emancipation.
After emancipation in 1863, minstrelsy was taken over increasingly by black performers.
Certain others benefited from deliberate and conscious acts of emancipation.
Fundamentalism is a revolt against modernity and one of the characteristics of modernity has been the emancipation of women.
The emancipation of the serfs in 1861 left the countryside in deep poverty.

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