Emancipation

• The freeing someone from the control of another such as in the context of slavery.
• Another meaning is parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child.

Emancipation Proclamation

• In the United States, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
• Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans.
• The Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators as by the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.
• From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty.
• As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom.

Other uses

• Catholic emancipation - In the United Kingdom, the catholic emancipation refers to the freedom from discrimination and civil disabilities granted to the Roman Catholics of Britain and Ireland in a series of laws during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
• Dunmore's Proclamation - In this proclamation which was created on November 7, 1775, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, the governor of Virginia, declares martial law and emancipates all slaves and indentured servants willing to fight for the British.
• Jewish emancipation - Jewish emancipation in Europe refers to the process of eliminating Jewish disabilities, e.g. Jewish quotas, to which European Jews were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights.

External links

• Emancipation-proclamation Archives.gov

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