emancipation

Workers are to engage the process of self-emancipation through taking charge of and reorganizing society--through bottom-up democratic means.

We had slavery and Jim Crow, and then the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights movement fixed those.

You're conflating black emancipation with black equality, which to white 19th century Americans were two very different things.

They felt that insisting on emancipation would poison any chance of ever reintegrating the South into the Union.

If not for the emancipation, the owner would have received the income that the government was receiving.

That's because the slaveholders in those countries didn't raise armies in rebellion when threatened with emancipation.

There are several ways - military service, certain legal emancipation situations, being a ward of the state, and being over 24.

Before you mention emancipation or a dependency override, check the requirements, they are quite difficult.

Even the much extolled Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery--only in the confederate states.

Catholic Emancipation in the UK wasn't complete until 1829 for example.

With the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln made his cause explicitly anti-slavery, and in the 1864 election the Republican platform explicitly included the complete abolition of slavery.

So even as he was drafting what became the Emancipation Proclamation, he was furiously insisting to anyone who asked that he intended nothing of the sort.

I disagree with her conclusion that "we should not conclude that they were experiencing some kind of early sexual emancipation".

Emancipation was broadly popular in the North, but that didn't mean Northerners saw blacks as their equals in any real respect.