Emancipated in a sentence

An effort by descendants of the emancipated to sue for what they had been promised — the legacy that had been lost — failed.

In societies emancipated from mental slavery, Wasiu’s action would’ve been met with a backlash that would affect his musical image and fortunes, but Nigeria is Babel, where the Toad’s croaking is music to the ears.

Wanting more hours to act as she got older, she asked for Schneider’s help to get emancipated since they were close.

We might be negatively affected if we became legally obliged to start treating emancipated slaves as human beings rather than barnyard beasts of burden.

One day later, June 19th, General Gordon Granger announced that the Black Americans still enslaved in Texas were emancipated and made free.

Washington led the birth of the US, Jefferson sparked its westward expansion, Lincoln preserved the union and emancipated slaves, and Roosevelt championed industrial innovation.

In 1838, the Africans in the British Caribbean were emancipated.

Oscar (Garren Stitt) intends to get emancipated with Alexis’ (Nancy Lee Grahn) help, so that’ll bring more family drama.

While young people under 18 can no longer be forcefully married as a result of a parent's whim or if they were pregnant, 16- and 17-year-old emancipated minors can still wed.

Alexander, 17. After being emancipated, his mother Matilda had moved to Dayton with other family members, including her two sons Robert and William from her first marriage.

An advocate of the colonization of emancipated slaves, he was acceptable to southern Whigs as an opponent of the abolitionists.

At that point, Lincoln had secured the support of the Republicans, War Democrats, the border states, emancipated slaves, and the neutrality of Britain and France.

At the February 1865 Hampton Roads Conference with Lincoln, senior Confederate officials rejected his invitation to restore the Union with compensation for emancipated slaves.

Because African Americans had only recently been emancipated and most lived in a hostile environment, Washington believed they could not expect too much at once.

By the 1850s the movement gained support from almost the whole of Romanian society, and the law from February 1856 emancipated all slaves to the status of taxpayers (citizens).

For example, emancipated minors may consent to medical treatment, and minors can also consent in an emergency.

Individual slaves could only be freed by congressional order, and the newly emancipated person would then be forced to leave Texas.

It was not until the 1930s that the descendants of emancipated slaves began a movement for political rights.

Kościuszko emancipated many peasants in order to enroll them as kosynierzy in his army, but the hard-fought insurrection, despite widespread national support, proved incapable of generating the foreign assistance necessary for its success.

Legal slavery persisted; and those slaves already in the U.S. were legally emancipated only in 1863.