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  • In history class, Gogol has learned that European immigrants had their names changed at Ellis Island, that slaves renamed themselves once they were emancipated.†   (source)
  • Slack-jawed, mesmerized, emancipated, he pulls out an imaginary baton, giggles and sways.†   (source)
  • On Tuesdays we have the Woman Question, and the emancipation of this or that, with reform-minded persons of both sexes; and on Thursdays the Spiritualist Circle, for tea and conversing with the dead, which is a comfort to the Governor's wife because of her departed infant son.†   (source)
  • Johns Hopkins was born on a tobacco plantation in Maryland where his father later freed his slaves nearly sixty years before Emancipation.†   (source)
  • The tribal violence that drove Beatrice Ziaty, a Liberian refugee whose sons Jeremiah and Mandela played on the Fugees, from Monrovia to Clarkston grew ultimately from the decision of a group of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century to relocate freed slaves from the United States after emancipation, a process that created a favored and much-resented ruling tribe with little or no organic connection to the nation it ruled.†   (source)
  • Emancipated for the moment at least from the torment of fantasy, Jose Arcadio Buendia in a short time set up a system of order and work which allowed for only one bit of license: the freeing of the birds, which, since the time of the founding, had made time merry with their flutes, and installing in their place musical clocks in every house.†   (source)
  • Today we see the seed of something similar: a global movement to emancipate women and girls.†   (source)
  • Zoey legally changed her last name to Redbird when she became an emancipated minor upon entrance to our school last month.†   (source)
  • Naw, Papa said that when the emancipation came, his daddy was just a little boy, and he had been hard of hearing so his master and everyone on the plantation had to call him twice to get his attention.†   (source)
  • He had been very interested in the notion of emancipation and had studied over it a lot while he went about his work.†   (source)
  • Tereza's desire to be emancipated and insist on her rightslike the right to lock herself in the bathroomwas more objectionable to Tereza's mother than the possibility of her husband's taking a prurient interest in Tereza.†   (source)
  • But soon the Klan evolved into a multistate terrorist organization designed to frighten and kill emancipated slaves.†   (source)
  • Ellen could not face the insecurities that are the price of emancipation Rather, she chose a life that was horrible in its details, but offered at least a semblance of what she called 'security'.†   (source)
  • Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires.†   (source)
  • Still waiting for this compensation the English promised when the Emancipation Act was passed.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Adams was utterly opposed to slavery and the slave trade and, like Rush, favored a gradual emancipation of all slaves.†   (source)
  • He had overseen the drafting of a constitution in 1964, which turned Afghanistan into a democracy, offering universal suffrage and emancipating women.†   (source)
  • Then he was renewing the dream in our hearts: "....this barren land after Emancipation," he intoned, "this land of darkness and sorrow, of ignorance and degradation, where the hand of brother had been turned against brother, father against son, and son against father; where master had turned against slave and slave against master; where all was strife and darkness, an aching land.†   (source)
  • Abolitionists believed in immediate cessation of slavery and complete emancipation of all slaves.†   (source)
  • I was first and foremost an African nationalist fighting for our emancipation from minority rule and the right to control our own destiny.†   (source)
  • In the saddle, emancipated from their bodies, Pollard, Woolf, and all other reinsmen sailed eight feet over the world, emphatically free, emphatically alive.†   (source)
  • I am learning the emancipation of the spirit, as revealed in the great secrets of India, the release from bondage to flesh, the victory over physical nature, the triumph of the spirit over matter.†   (source)
  • I wish my mum could be emancipated, a feminist, a working mother, etc., and manage to do my ironing.†   (source)
  • Is it true you got emancipated?†   (source)
  • Most of the students were children of immigrant Jews who preferred to regard themselves as having been emancipated from the fenced-off ghetto mentality typical of the other Jewish parochial schools in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • The great emancipators.†   (source)
  • Emancipation was a salient issue for Union soldiers because it was controversial.†   (source)
  • Charleston survived the Civil War with her architectural legacy intact and her collective unconscious simmering with aggravated memories of bombardment, reconstruction, and emancipation as she struggled to become whole again.†   (source)
  • The Virginia Assembly met in December, z83 The subject of slavery was introduced because some of the counties, alarmed by the Nat Turner insurrection, had petitioned for the gradual emancipation of the slaves or for abolition of slavery.†   (source)
  • They recognized that economic emancipation was the key to the racial solution.†   (source)
  • I considered myself an agnostic, emancipated enough from the shackles of belief and also brave enough to resist calling on any such questionable gaseous vertebrate as the Deity, even in times of travail and suffering.†   (source)
  • Mikulitsyn had devoted his youth to the movement for emancipation, to the revolution, and his only fear had been that he would not live to see it or that when it came it would be too moderate, not bloody enough for him.†   (source)
  • But emancipation is a proclamation and not a fact.†   (source)
  • But gradually, the old conflicts over emancipation and reconstruction faded away, and exploitation of the newly112 opened West and the trampled South brought new issues and new faces to the Senate.†   (source)
  • This fact delights her—finally, a formal emancipation from studenthood.†   (source)
  • Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.†   (source)
  • Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
    None but ourselves can free our minds†   (source)
  • So the time is ripe for a new emancipation movement to empower women and girls around the world.†   (source)
  • It would not become public for two months, but meanwhile the work of practical emancipation went on.†   (source)
  • He favored gradual emancipation and eventual colonization for the slaves.†   (source)
  • Despite his seemingly progressive actions, Mt de Klerk was by no means the great emancipator.†   (source)
  • Emancipation troubles killed old Cosway?†   (source)
  • And no matter what we do, short of nationwide emancipation, they will never be with us anyway.†   (source)
  • Then comes the glorious Emancipation Act and trouble for some of the high and mighties.†   (source)
  • We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation.†   (source)
  • The cause of Union united northern soldiers; the cause of emancipation divided them.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER ONE — Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves†   (source)
  • If emancipation is to be the policy of this war ...I do not care how quick the country goes to pot.†   (source)
  • Jefferson, who believed that slavery was a "moral and political depravity," nonetheless refused to free his own slaves and gave no public support to emancipation.†   (source)
  • While he spoke, the men surrounding him, Simeon Jocelyn, The Emancipator's editor, Joshua Leavitt, and nearly a dozen other men who had become members of his newly formed Amistad Committee, watched the agitated spectators and fidgeted nervously.†   (source)
  • The tide turned, and Britain banned the slave trade in 1807 and in 1833 became one of the first nations to emancipate its own slaves.†   (source)
  • The mob outside had stomached enough of the agitating pamphlets, the probing articles in the Tappan-supported abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator, and the scathing street-corner stump speeches given by the Tappans and their followers.†   (source)
  • '" As northern armies penetrated into the South they became agents of emancipation by their mere presence.†   (source)
  • Moreover, emancipation of women offers another dimension in which to tackle geopolitical challenges such as terrorism.†   (source)
  • China is an important model because it was precisely its emancipation of girls that preceded and enabled its economic takeoff.†   (source)
  • Four decades ago Bell Wiley wrote that scarcely one in ten Union soldiers "had any real interest in emancipation per se."†   (source)
  • In this respect the contribution of black soldiers—whose enlistment was a corollary of the emancipation policy—did much to change the minds of previously hostile white soldiers.†   (source)
  • If the Koran can be read differently today because of changing attitudes toward slaves, then why not emancipate women as well?†   (source)
  • Whereas a tacit consensus united Confederate soldiers in support of "southern institutions," including slavery, a bitter and explicit disagreement about emancipation divided northern soldiers.†   (source)
  • So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts.†   (source)
  • At times during the first two years of the war, for every soldier who held this opinion another expressed the opposite conviction: that emancipation was an unconstitutional and illegitimate war aim.†   (source)
  • Communism after the 1949 revolution was brutal in China, leading to tens of millions of deaths by famine or repression, but its single most positive legacy was the emancipation of women.†   (source)
  • In a larger sense, China has emerged as a model on gender issues for developing countries: It evolved from repressing women to emancipating them, underscoring that cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.†   (source)
  • This produced an anticopperhead backlash among Union soldiers, including many Democrats, that catapulted some of them clear into the Lincoln camp on emancipation.†   (source)
  • * The second factor that converted many soldiers to support of emancipation was a growing conviction that it really did hurt the enemy and help their own side.†   (source)
  • By the summer of 1862, antislavery principle and pragmatism fused into a growing commitment to emancipation as both a means and an end of Union victory.†   (source)
  • A New York lieutenant wrote to his sister in January, 1863, that in his officers' mess "we have had several pretty spirited, I may call them hot, controversies about slavery, the Emancipation Edict and kindred subjects."†   (source)
  • And of the soldiers in my sample who expressed a clear opinion about emancipation as a war aim at any time through the spring of 1863, two and one-half times as many favored it as opposed it: 36 percent to 14 percent.†   (source)
  • A Tennessee officer agreed that "slavery is lost or will be, & we had as well emancipate if we can make anything by it now....We can certainly live without negroes better than with yankees and without negroes both."†   (source)
  • In November, 1861, a Massachusetts officer and Harvard graduate declared that "slavery has brought death into our own households already in its wicked revolt against the government....There is but one way, and that is emancipation; either that or we must succumb and divide."†   (source)
  • But if "emancipation per se" meant a perception that the abolition of slavery was inseparably linked to the goal of preserving the Union, then almost three in ten Union soldiers took this position during the first year and a half of the war, and many more were eventually converted to it.†   (source)
  • " After reading Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in December, 1863, which stipulated southern acceptance of emancipation as a condition of peace, another Arkansas soldier, a planter, wrote his wife that Lincoln not only wanted to free the slaves but also "declares them entitled to all the rights and privileges as American citizens.†   (source)
  • The twoand-one-half-to-one majority for emancipation in my sample also probably overstates the margin in the army as a whole, because proemancipation sentiment was strongest among those groups overrepresented in the sample—officers, and men from professional and white-collar occupations—and underrepresents the less educated soldiers from blue-collar and immigrant backgrounds among whom antiblack and antiemancipation attitudes were strongest.†   (source)
  • Andrew Johnson, the courageous if untactful Tennessean who had been the only Southern Member of Congress to refuse to secede with his state, had committed himself to the policies of the Great Emancipator to whose high station he had succeeded only by the course of an assassin's bullet.†   (source)
  • Bergman, an emancipated woman from San Francisco, asked.†   (source)
  • All of our students are legally emancipated.†   (source)
  • "No wonder you didn't have a problem getting emancipated," she says dryly.†   (source)
  • She was so spontaneous, so emancipated, with such a free and modern spirit, that Aureliano did not know what to do with his body when he saw her arrive.†   (source)
  • Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized.†   (source)
  • Maybe she wants to be emancipated, though she's got to be almost eighteen so there doesn't seem to be much of a point to it now.†   (source)
  • Is it hard to get emancipated?†   (source)
  • It was Tappan's hope that such a display would not only draw attention to what could be done with rough materials straight from the dark continent, but also serve as an example of what kind of transformations could be made if American-born blacks were emancipated.†   (source)
  • Why has he been emancipated?†   (source)
  • Why were you emancipated?†   (source)
  • Emancipated?†   (source)
  • Roshaneh grew up in a wealthy, emancipated family of intellectuals who allowed her to study at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and later earn her MA in development economics at Yale.†   (source)
  • Zainab grew up in Baghdad in the period shaped by the long Iran-Iraq war, always fearful of attacks, raised by a father who was a pilot and a mother who was an unusually emancipated woman trained in biology.†   (source)
  • For a long time he had entertained the idea that I was a good Southerner, he said, a man emancipated, one who had somehow managed to escape the curse of bigotry which history had bequeathed to the region.†   (source)
  • The more I see of emancipation the more criminal I think it is.†   (source)
  • I now determined upon the adoption of the emancipation policy...†   (source)
  • I would save the Union," he wrote in answer to Horace Greeley's cry for emancipation.†   (source)
  • It would expressly make emancipation impossible except by voluntary action of the states severally.†   (source)
  • It contained no indictment of slavery, but simply based emancipation on "military necessity."†   (source)
  • But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.†   (source)
  • District slaveholders who wanted to emancipate their slaves were to be compensated from the federal Treasury.†   (source)
  • The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.†   (source)
  • be fidelity, fidelity only to the prime fixed principle of its own savageness; —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)
  • When Lincoln at last determined, in July 1862, to move toward emancipation, it was only after all his other policies had failed.†   (source)
  • For all its limitations, the Emancipation Proclamation probably made genuine emancipation inevitable.†   (source)
  • Lincoln assured Congress that emancipation would not lower wage standards of white labor even if the freedmen were not deported.†   (source)
  • Even with these concessions the Radicals had scored a triumph and forced Lincoln part way toward emancipation.†   (source)
  • Such claim as he may have to be remembered as an Emancipator perhaps rests more justly on his behind-the-scenes activity for the thirteenth amendment than on the Proclamation itself.†   (source)
  • It called for compensated emancipation (at first in the loyal border states) assisted by federal funds, to be followed at length by deportation and colonization of the freed Negroes.†   (source)
  • Seward remarked of the Proclamation: "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating the slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."†   (source)
  • The Crittenden Resolution had been rejected, the border states had quashed his plan of compensated emancipation, his generals were still floundering, and he had already lost the support of great numbers of conservatives.†   (source)
  • You fought harder than anybody against my emancipation.†   (source)
  • She had the aptitude of the struggler who seeks emancipation.†   (source)
  • I hope we shall soon emancipate you from Baedeker.†   (source)
  • Thus, when Emancipation finally came, it seemed to the freedman a literal Coming of the Lord.†   (source)
  • This is no sudden development, nor the fruit of Emancipation.†   (source)
  • The war cloud had thinned enough to allow a clearer conception of the work of Emancipation.†   (source)
  • [*] The emancipation of the serfs in 1861 is meant†   (source)
  • Thought emancipates itself in all directions at the same time as the arts.†   (source)
  • I believe I really do understand 'the Emancipation of Women movement' of the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • Though I mention Tatyana, I am not at all for the emancipation of women.†   (source)
  • His name suggests joy and emancipation to the heart of men.†   (source)
  • Russia has been ruined by the emancipation!†   (source)
  • Mr. Sands had not kept his promise to emancipate them.†   (source)
  • If we emancipate, are you willing to educate?†   (source)
  • It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.†   (source)
  • As they are determined not to mingle with the negroes, they refuse to emancipate them.†   (source)
  • "Just what they thought of the negroes before their emancipation!" said Pestsov angrily.†   (source)
  • "Do you suppose it possible that a nation ever will voluntarily emancipate?" said Miss Ophelia.†   (source)
  • I couldn't have him go away without emancipating the children.†   (source)
  • * * John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), Irish orator and judge who worked for Catholic emancipation.†   (source)
  • I longed to have their emancipation made certain.†   (source)
  • Now, I'm principled against emancipating, in any case.†   (source)
  • However, it soon grew clear that the hour of emancipation for that little prisoner of the flesh was to arrive earlier than her worst misgiving had conjectured.†   (source)
  • 'If I were to recognize the Russian orthodox religion and emancipate the serfs, do you think Russia would come over to me?'†   (source)
  • They were already getting ready to marry me before your father was born....[Laughs] And when the Emancipation came I was already first valet.†   (source)
  • she asked) feels rise within her, once youth is past, and must eject upon some object—it may be Emigration, it may be Emancipation; but whatever it be, this object round which the essence of her soul is daily secreted, becomes inevitably prismatic, lustrous, half looking-glass, half precious stone; now carefully hidden in case people should sneer at it; now proudly displayed.†   (source)
  • One must respect and defend it, when it serves the cause of emancipation and beauty, of freedom of the senses, of happiness and desire.†   (source)
  • Didn't the bishops and priests sell the aspirations of their country in 1829 in return for catholic emancipation?†   (source)
  • My mother, the old magpie, is still chattering about the emancipation of woman, with one eye on her grave and the other on her learned books, in which she is always looking for the dawn of a new life.†   (source)
  • The young men nowadays were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things.†   (source)
  • I felt no small degree of pride, either, in Franchise's presence at this return to humane conditions which, not an hour after Mamma had refused to come up to my room and had sent the snubbing message that I was to go to sleep, raised me to the dignity of a grown-up person, brought me of a sudden to a sort of puberty of sorrow, to emancipation from tears.†   (source)
  • If Lily recalled this early emotion it was not to compare it with that which now possessed her; the only point of comparison was the sense of lightness, of emancipation, which she remembered feeling, in the whirl of a waltz or the seclusion of a conservatory, during the brief course of her youthful romance.†   (source)
  • There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free; and he had long since discovered that May's only use of the liberty she supposed herself to possess would be to lay it on the altar of her wifely adoration.†   (source)
  • Settembrini, meanwhile, had become the advocate of nature and its nobility of health, ignoring any previous notions of emancipation.†   (source)
  • The law for father and son and mother and daughter is not the law of love: it is the law of revolution, of emancipation, of final supersession of the old and worn-out by the young and capable.†   (source)
  • Only I didn't agree with the Emancipation and remained with my people....[Pause] I remember everybody was happy, but they didn't know why.†   (source)
  • He was so noble-minded about the beauties of emancipation and criticism—and hummed little tunes at girls on the street.†   (source)
  • Before the Emancipation.†   (source)
  • It was, rather, a matter of the emancipation of the Spirit from the bonds of nature, indeed, the work proclaimed a religious contempt for nature by refusing to submit to it.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Directly after the Emancipation Proclamation, Representative Eliot had introduced a bill creating a Bureau of Emancipation; but it was never reported.†   (source)
  • This movement took place between Emancipation and 1880, and only partially accomplished the desired results.†   (source)
  • Yes, this work, too, was absurd, but when one stopped and considered the matter, one could, in his opinion, call absurdity an intellectually honorable position, and so the absurd enmity toward nature in Gothic art was ultimately as honorable as the gesture of a Plotinus or a Voltaire, for it expressed the same emancipation from facts and givens, the same proud unwillingness to be enslaved, the same refusal to submit to dumb powers, that is, to nature.†   (source)
  • Then came the revolution of war and Emancipation, the bewilderment of Reconstruction,—and now, what is the Egypt of the Confederacy, and what meaning has it for the nation's weal or woe?†   (source)
  • Less than a month after the weary Emancipator passed to his rest, his successor assigned Major-Gen. Oliver O. Howard to duty as Commissioner of the new Bureau.†   (source)
  • This is the direct heritage of the South from the wasteful economies of the slave regime; but it was emphasized and brought to a crisis by the Emancipation of the slaves.†   (source)
  • To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes of wearied Israelites.†   (source)
  • Here in America, in the few days since Emancipation, the black man's turning hither and thither in hesitant and doubtful striving has often made his very strength to lose effectiveness, to seem like absence of power, like weakness.†   (source)
  • It had long been the more or less definitely expressed theory of the North that all the chief problems of Emancipation might be settled by establishing the slaves on the forfeited lands of their masters,—a sort of poetic justice, said some.†   (source)
  • Here at last seemed to have been discovered the mountain path to Canaan; longer than the highway of Emancipation and law, steep and rugged, but straight, leading to heights high enough to overlook life.†   (source)
  • If they had been given an economic start at Emancipation, if they had been in an enlightened and rich community which really desired their best good, then we might perhaps call such a result small or even insignificant.†   (source)
  • If, however, the vistas disclosed as yet no goal, no resting-place, little but flattery and criticism, the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination; it changed the child of Emancipation to the youth with dawning self-consciousness, self-realization, self-respect.†   (source)
  • In explaining this unfortunate development, we must note two things: (1) that the inevitable result of Emancipation was to increase crime and criminals, and (2) that the police system of the South was primarily designed to control slaves.†   (source)
  • Books were flung aside without being put away on the shelves, inkstands were overturned, benches thrown down, and the whole school was turned loose an hour before the usual time, bursting forth like a legion of young imps, yelping and racketing about the green in joy at their early emancipation.†   (source)
  • 1833), English philanthropists and anti-slavery agitators who helped to secure passage of the Emancipation Bill by Parliament in 1833.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me," Sergey Ivanovitch interposed with a smile, "self-interest did not induce us to work for the emancipation of the serfs, but we did work for it."†   (source)
  • United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the first conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.†   (source)
  • In the same book, I met with one of Sheridan's mighty speeches on and in behalf of Catholic emancipation.†   (source)
  • Self-emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination—what Wilberforce is there to bring that about?†   (source)
  • , either to emancipate the negroes, and to intermingle with them; or, remaining isolated from them, to keep them in a state of slavery as long as possible.†   (source)
  • Yes—and in my opinion a journalist incurs a heavy responsibility if he neglects a favourable opportunity of emancipating the masses—the humble and oppressed.†   (source)
  • What is important are the rights of man, emancipation from prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon has retained in full force.†   (source)
  • The poor woman turned out to be in Petersburg, where she had gone with her divinity student, and where she had thrown herself into a life of complete emancipation.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pardiggle being as clear that the only one infallible course was her course of pouncing upon the poor and applying benevolence to them like a strait-waistcoat; as Miss Wisk was that the only practical thing for the world was the emancipation of woman from the thraldom of her tyrant, man.†   (source)
  • Long before an American girl arrives at the age of marriage, her emancipation from maternal control begins; she has scarcely ceased to be a child when she already thinks for herself, speaks with freedom, and acts on her own impulse.†   (source)
  • The light of day reassured me; I went and threw myself on the bed, without parting with the emancipating knife, which I concealed under my pillow.†   (source)
  • With all the novelty of my emancipation on me, I went to church with Joe, and thought perhaps the clergyman wouldn't have read that about the rich man and the kingdom of Heaven, if he had known all.†   (source)
  • When each new speaker strikes a new light, emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought, then yields us to another redeemer, we seem to recover our rights, to become men.†   (source)
  • But he has the same sort of enthusiasm for liberty, freedom, emancipation—a fine thing under guidance—under guidance, you know.†   (source)
  • I am well dressed and reckoned not a poor man; the emancipation of the serfs hasn't affected me; my property consists chiefly of forests and water meadows.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Pierre demanded that steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation.†   (source)
  • So they emancipate themselves, break the yoke of the architect, and take themselves off, each one in its own direction.†   (source)
  • In Poland they support the party that insists on an agrarian revolution as the prime condition for national emancipation, that party which fomented the insurrection of Cracow in 1846.†   (source)
  • You have studied the 'emancipation of women' business of the nineteenth century: don't you remember that some of the 'superior' women wanted to emancipate the more intelligent part of their sex from the bearing of children?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Nikolai Petrovitch has been made one of the mediators appointed to carry out the emancipation reforms, and works with all his energies; he is for ever driving about over his district; delivers long speeches (he maintains the opinion that the peasants ought to be 'brought to comprehend things,' that is to say, they ought to be reduced to a state of quiescence by the constant repetition of the same words); and yet, to tell the truth, he doe†   (source)
  • I indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would, at any rate, make him more kind and humane.†   (source)
  • You have studied the 'emancipation of women' business of the nineteenth century: don't you remember that some of the 'superior' women wanted to emancipate the more intelligent part of their sex from the bearing of children?†   (source)
  • Historical action is to yield to their personal inventive action, historically created conditions of emancipation to fantastic ones, and the gradual, spontaneous class-organisation of the proletariat to the organisation of society specially contrived by these inventors.†   (source)
  • But the emancipation of the slaves has not solved the problem, how two races so different and so hostile are to live together in peace in one country on equal terms.†   (source)
  • He hoped to awaken his son's sympathy one day by beginning a propos of the approaching emancipation of the peasantry, to talk about progress; but the latter responded indifferently: 'Yesterday I was walking under the fence, and I heard the peasant boys here, instead of some old ballad, bawling a street song.†   (source)
  • Having broken or relaxed the bonds of filial obedience, they have then to emancipate themselves by a final effort from the sway of custom and the tyranny of opinion; and when at length they have succeeded in this arduous task, they stand estranged from their natural friends and kinsmen: the prejudice they have crossed separates them from all, and places them in a situation which soon breaks their courage and sours their hearts.†   (source)
  • She is a student, dying to get back to Petersburg, to work for the emancipation of the Russian woman on the banks of the Neva.†   (source)
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