emancipation
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- n freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
- 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.
- The proclamation reaches the South where a family of slaves receives news of their emancipation.