emancipated

in a sentence

First, in two chapters I have tried to show what Emancipation meant to them, and what was its aftermath.  (source) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.  (source) United States 'Founding Fathers', The Constitution of the United States, 1787

Davis has been declared an emancipated minor by the state and is his brother's legal guardian.†  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

This family saga is extremely well written, but the parts dealing with war, writers and the emancipation of women aren't very good.†  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

What was needed—what Emily needed—was a woman emancipated from pretense, a woman who could show herself to be a man.†  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

—Clytie who in the very pigmentation of her flesh represented that debacle which had brought Judith and me to what we were and which had made of her (Clyne) that which she declined to be just as she had declined to be that from which its purpose had been to emancipate her, as though presiding aloof upon the new, she deliberately remained to represent to us the threatful portent of the old.†  (source) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, 1936

A soul without a body is as inhuman and horrible as a body without a soul— whereby the first is the rare exception and the latter the rule Normally it is the body that grows unchecked, usurping all importance, all life to itself, emancipating itself in the most loathsome fashion.†  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

One of Lincoln's fists is curled into the sign language letter A; the other displays the sign language L. The Great Emancipator's shoulders are slumped, and his head is slightly lowered, as if he still carries the great burden of being president.†  (source) Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy, 2012

A backlash of antiemancipation sentiment began to surface in the letters of a number of them in 1862.†  (source) James M. McPherson, What They Fought For - 1861-1865, 1994

Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires.†  (source) Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black, 2011

The great emancipators.†  (source) J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, 1957

I remember how it took Kim two months to get permission to take that helicopter flight with her uncle, so I'm impressed that she managed this amount of emancipation within the space of a few hours.†  (source) Gayle Forman, If I Stay, 2009

At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996