Emancipation refers to becoming free or equal, and can be used in a variety of contexts:

In slavery:

• Abolitionism (abolition of slavery), a political movement that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade
• Manumission, the freedom of a slave by the owner voluntarily
• The freedom of a slave in accordance with laws under certain conditions

In history:

• Catholic emancipation, the increase of Roman Catholics' civil rights in Britain and Ireland
• Jewish emancipation, in which the Jews were given citizenship rights in France in 1791 and in the rest of Europe through the nineteenth century
• Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, the liquidation of serf dependence of Russian peasants by Alexander II of Russia
• Emancipation Proclamation, a declaration by United States President Abraham Lincoln announcing that all slaves in Confederate territory still in rebellion were freed
• Emancipist was a term used for former transported convicts in the Australian penal colonies given conditional or absolute pardon.

In politics:

• Emancipation of women, including the women's suffrage movement
• see political emancipation for other usages

In family law:

• Emancipation of minors, where a minor becomes an adult in practice, usually by receiving a declaration of liberation from a court expressly for this purpose

In music: (formerly known as Prince, a musical artist)

In spirituality:

• The process of the gradual elevation of or liberation to service to the soul. Materially taken it means to become an equal to a certain standard of civilization. Spiritually it refers to the process of gradual liberation beginning with listening, speaking and remembering ending in friendship and finally surrender to the dictates of the soul.

See also

• Self-determination
• Revolution (disambiguation)
• Liberation (disambiguation)

Еманципация | Emanzipation | אמנציפציה | Emancipatie