emancipate (someone) from (something)

To liberate someone from someone or something, often slavery. Abraham Lincoln is remembered for emancipating the slaves from bondage. Death is the only thing that will emancipate her from this dreadful illness. The Thirteenth Amendment legally emancipated people from slavery in the US.

emancipate someone from someone or something

to free someone from someone or something. The president emancipated the slaves from their bondage. The planter emancipated Fred from slavery long before the law was written.

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The only authentic solution to this quandary, of course, is to emancipate our nation from the UN and evict the body from our shores--an approach not in favor with the globalist clique controlling the Bush administration.

ICC still threatens U.S. soldiers. (Insider Report)

Sexual predators determined to overcome the obstacle of parental authority are eagerly promoting similar efforts to "emancipate" children today.

The "emancipated" child: the UN aims to free children from parental authority and make them wards of the state, a move that will abolish the family and leave children vulnerable to sexual exploitation. (Child Grab)

for political and social historians such apparent frivolity is out of keeping with the struggle of the lower orders to emancipate themselves."(p.

Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London

The proclamation did not emancipate any slaves in those portions of the Confederacy that the Union army had already reconquered, including all of Tennessee and large portions of Virginia and Louisiana." In other words, the Emancipation Proclamation was an ultimatum delivered to the seceding states rather than a presidential decree freeing slaves everywhere.

The Right Answers

There's a long way to go, obviously, but this is still very encouraging in light of the fact that this bill is the first serious legislative effort to emancipate our nation from the UN.

The Way to Win

A few slaves might accumulate sufficient cash to buy their freedom or emancipate loved ones.

The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana

To make this staggering assertion work, Hansen overlooks a generation of scholars who have shown that throughout the 19th and early 20th century mass movements to emancipate immigrant workers, women and African Americans were framed in a republican language hostile to monopoly capital.

Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film

His will left most of his wealth to his first eight children, but the most valuable property was to be sold and the money used to purchase and emancipate Hannah, his second wife, and her four children.

It was, therefore, not coincidental that legatees began to question parental decisions to emancipate when their own inheritances were markedly diminished.

"A class of people neither freemen nor slaves": from Spanish to American race relations in Florida, 1821-1861

Rather, CRT is a bona fide and avant-garde movement that leads to praxis--explicitly and courageously speaking to the injustices that prohibit people of color from exercising freedoms that whites have come to enjoy--that emancipates oppressed persons from a life of destituteness.

Overcoming Being in a Nadir: The Harsh Realities of a Society Created for Whites

Aidoo rejected the argument that Western education emancipates African women.

Aidoo, Ama Ata