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• n  freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

• The proclamation reaches the South where a family of slaves receives news of their emancipation.
• Ironically, as some commentators note, the increase in the procedure reflects the growing emancipation of women from tradition-rooted communities, but also the ongoing male .
• According to Historian John Hope Franklin, Negro colonization seemed as important to Lincoln as emancipation.

News & Articles

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• 150 YEARS AGO: Lincoln endorses gradual emancipation in meeting with Radicals
  MACON — President Abraham Lincoln endorsed gradual, compensated emancipation for Missouri in an interview with a representative of mainly German Radical abolitionists, according to a report of the mee
  June 11, 2013 - Columbia Daily Tribune
• Juneteenth 2013 Celebrates 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
  This year’s Juneteenth promises to be a big one, with food, free children’s activities, arts events and a parade celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation itself.
  June 11, 2013 - Skanner
• Quick Opinion: Slaves who fought for America in Revolutionary War are granted posthumous emancipation.
  Some might think it was pointless for New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan to sign a symbolic bill granting emancipation to 14 slaves who fought for America during the Revolutionary War.
  June 11, 2013 - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Quotes

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• Fadela Amara in Houston Chronicle
  The court decision "is a real fatwa against the emancipation and liberty of women," said Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara, the daughter of immigrants from North Africa.
• President Bush in USA Today
  It seems fitting on Martin Luther King Day that I come and look at the Emancipation Proclamation in its original form,Bush said. "Abraham Lincoln recognized that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King lived on that admonition to...
• Asif Ali Zardari in Xinhua
  On this day let us all resolve that we shall endeavor to uphold the Constitution, rule of law and work for the emancipation of the people. I hope that towards this end all institutions of the state will work in harmony,Zardari said.