President Abraham Lincoln is best known for his efforts to emancipate African Americans from slavery. From LearnThat.org.
Seeking to 'emancipate' the individual from authority. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Do not seek to "emancipate" yourself -- do not strive to unsex yourself and become a Lucy Stone, or a Rev. Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Guest] Reference
"emancipate" the African majority through the attainment of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But they are not strong enough to emancipate themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
The disposition to emancipate them is strongest in Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
Conservatism cannot emancipate itself from the conditions of the age. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
In Maryland and North Carolina, a very few are disposed to emancipate. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
To make that race true free men was a task much more vast than to emancipate them. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900] Reference
Congress to emancipate "all persons of African descent held in involuntary servitude.". From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Lessing the effort to emancipate the drama from some of its neo-classical restriction. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
It was no more his duty to defend slavery than it was Fremont's to emancipate the slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Negroes, would emancipate their slaves because they would then be relieved from their care. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Thus they "emancipate their consciences from the conventional bonds of traditional religions.". From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
If emancipation is to be thought of, would it not be well to emancipate the white races first?. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
The nobles of Poland, seeing what was coming, declared themselves ready to emancipate their serfs. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
The grain growing States had to emancipate their slaves, to rid themselves of a profitless system. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
You will promptly say, emancipate your slaves, and then you will have free labor on suitable terms. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
But now the time has arrived once more when these also desire to emancipate themselves from thraldom. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
They emancipate our toes from the tyranny of the closed-toe shoes we're forced to wear in cold weather. From Wordnik.com. [Leora Tanenbaum: Take Off Those Flip-Flops! And 5 Other Essential Summer Shoe Tips] Reference
The Hungarian nation owes it to itself to emancipate these struggling women and show them the way to better things. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
South will at once emancipate every slave within her limits; because we will then be in the midst of the millenium. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
They aim, first, to alarm us: that failing, to compel us by force to emancipate our slaves, at our own risk and cost. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
And I admit at once that every man is bound to set his face against it, and to emancipate his slaves, should he hold any. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
But His was the glorious mission not only to awake but to emancipate, not only to unveil lost splendour but to recover it. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Many of them determined to emancipate their slaves; and the society since has been very active in promoting the abolition. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Did they abstain from even exhorting masters to emancipate their slaves, though an imperative duty, from fear of consequences?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Altogether, the system of help granted by the State is so bad that science has always endeavoured to emancipate itself from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
The first attempt to emancipate the slaves was made by the leaders of the French Revolution, who, while they professed to discard. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Luther, in 1524, says to the German peasants; 'You wish to emancipate yourselves from slavery, but slavery is as old as the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
You have already emancipated nearly two millions of our slaves, -- and if you will take care of them, you may emancipate the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
He was convinced that if some disposition could be made of the free Negroes, many slaveholders would gladly emancipate their slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
The authority to emancipate under the war power is well settled, but it could only be asserted over territory occupied by our armies. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
He considered the free black "a great evil," "a nuisance," and "a bug-bear to every man who feels an inclination to emancipate his slaves.". From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
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