897 examples of emancipated in sentences

Now I am emancipated, I feel as if I had a thousand Essays swelling within me.

Now to the brighter side, I am emancipated from most hated and detestable people, the Westwoods.

Because of his comical attire, an eminent Oxford divine, whose life and works commanded reverence, was once mistaken for an ancient New England spinster in emancipated garments.

She knew, and knew with delight, the wanderer's lightened, emancipated sense of being at a distance from obligations, that cheerful sense of an escape from the emprisoning solidarity of humanity which furnishes the zest of life for the tourist and the tramp, enabling the one light-heartedly to offend proprieties and the other casually to commit murder.

The memorable Irish decree, "that all the English slaves in the whole of Ireland, be immediately emancipated and restored to their former liberty," was issued in 1171.

In St. Domingo, Cayenne, Guadaloupe and Martinique, in 1794, where more than 600,000 slaves were emancipated by the French government.

The Maryland Court of Appeals at the December term 1813 (see case of Stewart vs. Oakes,) decided that a slave owned in Maryland, and sent by his master into Virginia to work at different periods, making one year in the whole, became free, being emancipated by the law of Virginia quoted above.

In this case, which was tried in 1836, the slave had been taken by her master to France and brought back; Judge Mathews, of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, decided that "residence for one moment" under the laws of France emancipated her.

Reps. 36, declared that the ordinance emancipated the slaves then held there.

This clause was inserted, as all admit, to prevent the runaway slave from being emancipated by the laws of the free states.

Jan. 19, 1829, Mr. Alexander, of Virginia, presented a representation of the grand jury in the city of Washington, remonstrating against "any measure for the abolition of slavery within said District, unless accompanied by measures for the removal of the emancipated from the same;" thus, not only conceding the power to emancipate slaves, but affirming an additional power, that of excluding them when free.

Emancipation is deemed an incalculable blessing, because it released the planters from an endless complication of responsibilities, perplexities, temptations and anxieties, and because it emancipated them from the bondage of the whip. 9th.

Several months previous to the time of which we now speak, a few colored families (emancipated negroes) bought of a white man some small parcels of land lying adjacent to Mr. C.'s estate.

To the emancipated, we recognise our obligations as the friends of the slave, for their simple-hearted and reiterated assurances that they should remember the oppressed of our land in their prayers to God.

" Mr. C. thinks the slaves of Barbadoes might have been entirely and immediately emancipated as well as those of Antigua.

There was so much intelligence in the countenances of the people, that we could scarcely believe we were looking on a congregation of lately emancipated slaves.

At the time of abolition, Mr. C. owned ten slaves, whom he entirely emancipated.

I repeat it again, that it would rejoice my very soul, that every one of my fellow-beings was emancipated.

In some of the Northern States, they have emancipated all their slaves.

But whether those in slavery in the southern States will be emancipated after the year 1808, I do not pretend to determine: I rather doubt it.

At present, if any slave elopes to any of those States where slaves are free, he becomes emancipated by their laws.

I repeat it again, that it would rejoice my very soul, that every one of my fellow-beings was emancipated.

In some of the Northern States, they have emancipated all their slaves.

Instead of this, they should be, as emancipated slaves often have been, models of enterprise, fidelity, activity, and usefulnessespecially as their masters were "worthy of their confidence and love," their helpers in this well-doing.

We are emancipated.

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