emancipation
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And what do Americans think of when they think of the emancipation of enslaved people?
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
It commemorates the day—June 19, 1865—when news of emancipation reached people in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy in Galveston, Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Less attention has been paid to the ways in which enslaved people strove for emancipation through acts of resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
To Madison, the only viable plan was gradual, compensated emancipation.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing emancipation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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American History I
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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