Wednesday, December 16, 2015

emancipate

emancipate     [ih-Man-suh-peyt] 

verb. to set free from (social, legal, or political) restriction or influence  

"The American Revolution was about colonists emancipating themselves from British rule."

"It is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 slaves."

"France was once the center of Jewish learning, and was the first country to emancipate Jews, during the French revolution."

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