Example sentences for: emancipation

How can you use “emancipation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The greatest events and achievements of the past 1,000 years are reviewed, including the miraculous growth of prosperity since 1750, the persistence of the city, the emancipation of women, the rise of the law, and the invention of limited liability (the key to the rise of equity corporations).

  • It now houses the Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation.

  • He formed the peaceful but powerful Catholic Association, and in 1829 the Duke of Wellington, in a bid to avoid a civil war, passed the Catholic Emancipation Bill, which allowed Irish Catholics to sit in the parliament at Westminster for the first time.

  • After the emancipation of blacks, the movement for women’s suffrage gained strength and finally triumphed in 1920, and then in unclear succession came the contemporary efforts toward the equal treatment of homosexuals, “illegitimate” children, the handicapped, and even undocumented aliens.

  • In his choice of words, King harks back to Lincoln, who recognized our commitment to the proposition that all men are created equal but hoped that the emancipation would generate “a new birth of freedom.”


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