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These actions undermined the slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and, in some cases, hastened the enactment of emancipatory laws.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

The play transforms in the end to a feminist rally, but too many false farcical moves spoil the emancipatory fun.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2024

"The second half turns to the substitutions," such as Lord Acton or Sigmund Freud, "that were proposed to orient liberals for the tragic future disabused of emancipatory hope."

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2023

Pop culture has sometimes mocked the emancipatory potential of walking on fire.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022

Furthermore, when the Ordinance of 1787 with its famous sixth article against slavery was proclaimed, it was soon discovered that this document was not necessarily emancipatory.

From A Century of Negro Migration by Woodson, Carter Godwin