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Thomas Carper was a Union sympathizer during the Civil War, and records show that he had emancipated three enslaved people in 1855.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

The bomb thrown in 1881 at Tsar Alexander II, who had emancipated the serfs, woefully stymied reform in Russia.

From Economist • Mar. 15, 2018

At 17 he had emancipated himself from his parents and founded a brokerage, selling it the following year.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 29, 2013

In the last 100 years, they had emancipated themselves from domestic tyranny, political and economic discrimination, laced-up corsets and knee-length bloomers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Musset had emancipated himself from the C�nacle, and would neither appeal to the eye with an overcharge of local colour, nor seduce the ear with rich or curious rhymes.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund