Emancipation
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Emancipation
Young Bride of Three Hours' standing (just starting on her Wedding Trip). — "Oh, Edwin dear! Here's Tom Jones. Papa told me I wasn't to read it till I was married! The day has come ... at last! Buy it for me, Edwin dear."
Cartoon from Punch, Vol. 101, December 5, 1891
Young Bride of Three Hours' standing (just starting on her Wedding Trip). — "Oh, Edwin dear! Here's Tom Jones. Papa told me I wasn't to read it till I was married! The day has come ... at last! Buy it for me, Edwin dear."
Cartoon from Punch, Vol. 101, December 5, 1891
Emancipation means becoming free and equal; the term can be used in various contexts:
- historically, a slave becoming free by
- being set free by the owner (manumission), voluntarily or in accordance with laws requiring it after a certain time or in certain cases, thereby becoming freedman (e.g. Emancipation Proclamation)
- abolition of slavery
- emancipation of the serfs in Russian Empire
- The process of the gradual elevation of or liberation to service to the soul. Materially taken it means to become an equal to a certain standard of civilization. Spiritually it refers to the process of gradual liberation beginning with listening, speaking and remembering ending in friendship and finally surrender to the dictates of the soul.
- a 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
- Jewish emancipation in which the Jews were given citizenship rights in France in 1791 and in the rest of Europe through the nineteenth century, particularly after 1848. In some parts of eastern Europe such as Romania Jews were not emancipated until after the First World War.
- Catholic emancipation in Britain and Ireland, increasing Roman Catholics' civil rights.
- a convict in the historic Australian penal colonies becoming free
- equal rights for races, as opposed to racism
- women's liberation and men's (fathers) liberation, as opposed to sexism
- sexual liberation, as opposed to sexualism
- Youth Rights, as opposed to ageism
- animal rights, as opposed to speciesism
Emancipation is also a 1996 triple-CD album by the artist (then) formerly known as Prince.
See also Self-determination.
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