emancipation from slavery

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• Slavery in the United States — began soon after English colonists first settled Virginia in 1607 and lasted until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. Before the widespread establishment of chattel slavery, much labor was organized …   Wikipedia

• Emancipation —     Ecclesiastical Emancipation     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Emancipation     In ancient Rome emancipation was a process of law by which a slave released from the control of his master, or a son liberated from the authority of his …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Emancipation — E*man ci*pa tion, n. [L. emancipatio: cf. F. [ e]mancipation.] The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; the act or process of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• emancipation — 1630s, a setting free, from Fr. émancipation, from L. emancipationem (nom. emancipatio), noun of action from pp. stem of emancipare (see EMANCIPATE (Cf. emancipate)). Specifically with reference to U.S. slavery from 1785. In Britain, with… …   Etymology dictionary

• Emancipation Proclamation — The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the… …   Wikipedia

• Slavery abolition efforts by Les Amis des Noirs — The Slavery abolition efforts by Les Amis des Noirs took place against the background of the French Revolution with the argument that liberté, égalité, fraternité precluded slavery.BackgroundA common perception of the French Revolution of 1789 is …   Wikipedia

• slavery — /slay veuh ree, slayv ree/, n. 1. the condition of a slave; bondage. 2. the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. 3. a state of subjection like that of a slave: He was kept in slavery by drugs. 4. severe toil; drudgery. [1545 55; SLAVE… …   Universalium

• Slavery — Slave redirects here. For other uses, see Slave (disambiguation). Part of a series on …   Wikipedia

• Slavery in India — The history of slavery in India is complicated by the presence of factors which relate to the definition, ideological and religious perceptions, difficulties in obtaining and interpreting written sources, and perceptions of political impact of… …   Wikipedia

• Emancipation of the British West Indies — The Emancipation of the British West Indies was proposed as early as 1787, but was not achieved until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.The British were the first to attempt to abolish slavery in the Caribbean during the early 1800s, but complete …   Wikipedia

• Slavery in the colonial United States — The origins of slavery in the colonial United States are complex and there are several theories that have been proposed to explain the trade. Indentured servitudeSome historians, notably Edmund Morgan, have suggested that indentured servitude… …   Wikipedia