slave emancipation
Freeing enslaved people
Slave emancipation is the freeing of enslaved people, either by individual owners or through legal abolition.
The term typically refers to large-scale liberation through government action: The Emancipation Proclamation declared slave emancipation in Confederate states.
Emancipation ended the legal status but not necessarily the economic or social conditions of formerly enslaved people.
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- freedom papersLegal proof of emancipation
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- forty acresTen-acre quadruple
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
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Forced human ownership
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Forcing into submission
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