1 I indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would, at any rate, make him more kind and humane.
2 It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.
3 The first desire of the emancipated slave, generally, is for education.
4 Stowe, then of Lane Seminary, Ohio, with regard to emancipated slaves, now resident in Cincinnati; given to show the capability of the race, even without any very particular assistance or encouragement.
5 'Please, stop,' he repeated once more, instinctively revelling in a consciousness of his own advanced and emancipated condition.
6 There was nothing repulsive in the little plain person of the emancipated woman; but the expression of her face produced a disagreeable effect on the spectator.
7 It was an age in which the human intellect, newly emancipated, had taken a more active and a wider range than for many centuries before.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 8 We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same.
9 Not to conceal anything, the three first were more experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 10 Thus did the United States government definitely assume charge of the emancipated Negro as the ward of the nation.
11 The more I see of emancipation the more criminal I think it is.
12 Since the emancipation came and the tie of mutual interest and regard between master and servant was broken, the Negro has drifted away into a state which is neither freedom nor bondage.
13 In the same book, I met with one of Sheridan's mighty speeches on and in behalf of Catholic emancipation.
14 who worked for Catholic emancipation.
15 Doubtless the scheme may have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation.