EMANCIPATE in a Sentence

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23 example sentences for EMANCIPATE, such as:

1. who worked for Catholic emancipation.
2. The more I see of emancipation the more criminal I think it is.
3. It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.
4. The first desire of the emancipated slave, generally, is for education.
5. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMANCIPATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
emancipate
 v.  free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
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.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  The first desire of the emancipated slave, generally, is for education.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  'Please, stop,' he repeated once more, instinctively revelling in a consciousness of his own advanced and emancipated condition.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
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.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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 Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
8  We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
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 Hugo
Context  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.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
11  The more I see of emancipation the more criminal I think it is.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
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.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
13  In the same book, I met with one of Sheridan's mighty speeches on and in behalf of Catholic emancipation.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  who worked for Catholic emancipation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  Doubtless the scheme may have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence:
1  At first, the attempts to emancipate the slaves were unpopular in New England as well as in the South.
2  Mr. Jefferson did not mean to say, nor do I, that the power of emancipation is in the Federal Government.