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Emancipation refers to becoming free or equal, and can be used in a variety of contexts:
In politics:
Jewish emancipation, in which the Jews were given citizenship rights in France in 1791 and in the rest of Europe through the nineteenth century
In slavery:
Abolitionism (abolition of slavery), a political movement that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade
Emancipation Proclamation, a declaration by United States President Abraham Lincoln announcing that all slaves in Confederate territory still in rebellion were freed
The freedom of a slave in accordance with laws under certain conditions
Manumission, the freedom of a slave by the owner voluntarily
In law:
Emancipation of minors, where a minor becomes an adult in practice, usually by receiving a declaration of liberation from a court expressly for this purpose
Emancipist was a term used for former transported convicts in the Australian penal colonies given conditional or absolute pardon.
In music:
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