Emancipation
- Title
- Emancipation
- Description
- Emancipation refers to the process by which enslaved people achieved freedom from their enslavers. Emancipation occurred through a variety of means: self-emancipation, freedom suits, manumission through wills and deeds, and state and federal legislation. Rather than being recipients of emancipation, enslaved people took an active part in making emancipation for themselves and their families a reality.
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- Legal Concepts
- Title
- Emancipation
- Description
- Emancipation refers to the process by which enslaved people achieved freedom from their enslavers. Emancipation occurred through a variety of means: self-emancipation, freedom suits, manumission through wills and deeds, and state and federal legislation. Rather than being recipients of emancipation, enslaved people took an active part in making emancipation for themselves and their families a reality.
- Item sets
- Legal Concepts