emancipation movement
Freedom-seeking collective effort
An emancipation movement is an organized effort to free a group from legal, social, or political restrictions.
The term most often refers to campaigns to abolish slavery, particularly in the United States and British Empire, but extends to movements for women's rights, colonial independence, or liberation of other oppressed groups: The emancipation movement gained momentum in the 1850s.
- protestsPublic expressions of opposition
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- speak truth to powerCriticize those in charge
- slaveryOwnership of people
Haitian Revolution · equality · women's liberation · intersectionality · human rights · empowerment · civil disobedience · self-determination · manumission · breaking chains · liberation · free at last · patriarchy · lobbying · boycotts · racism · justice · grassroots organizing
- Abolitionabolitionists, Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, antislavery, Thirteenth Amendment
- movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
emancipation movementenslavement
Forced human ownership
oppression · subjugation · apartheid · Jim Crow · serfdom
emancipation movementcounterrevolution
Reversal of political upheaval
status quo · counter-revolution · conservatism · traditionalism · retrenchment
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