emancipation

Emancipation refers to becoming free or equal, and can be used in a variety of contexts:

In politics:

• political emancipation or achieving political freedom
• Emancipation of women, including the women's suffrage movement
• Catholic emancipation, the increase of Roman Catholics' civil rights in Britain and Ireland
• Jewish emancipation, in which the Jews were given citizenship rights in France in 1791 and in the rest of Europe through the nineteenth century
• advancement of youth rights

In slavery:

• Abolitionism (abolition of slavery), a political movement that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade
• Emancipation Proclamation, a declaration by United States President Abraham Lincoln announcing that all slaves in Confederate territory still in rebellion were freed
• The freedom of a slave in accordance with laws under certain conditions
• Manumission, the freedom of a slave by the owner voluntarily
• Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, the liquidation of serf dependence of Russian peasants by Alexander II of Russia

In law:

• Emancipation of minors, where a minor becomes an adult in practice, usually by receiving a declaration of liberation from a court expressly for this purpose
• Emancipist was a term used for former transported convicts in the Australian penal colonies given conditional or absolute pardon.

In music:

• Emancipation (album), a 1996 music album by (formerly known as Prince, a musical artist)
• The Emancipation of Mimi, a 2005 music album by Mariah Carey

See also

• Self-determination
• Revolution (disambiguation)
• Liberation (disambiguation)