All 3 Uses
liberate
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Harriet Tubman, by Petry
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- In Boston, on January r, 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.†
Chpt 7 *liberator = someone who sets others free
- In Boston, on October 21, 1835, William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator, was rescued from a mob of some two thousand well-dressed, eminently respectable men who were intent on hanging him.†
Chpt 8
- In the North, men who had been indifferent to slavery, men who had been openly hostile toward the Abolitionists, men who hated Garrison and his newspaper, The Liberator, with a deep and abiding hatred, were stirred to anger.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(liberate) to set free -- as from prison, political oppression, persecution, expectations...
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In chemistry liberate can specifically mean to free something (such as a gas) from a compound through chemical reaction. Even more rarely, liberate is used in a humorous way as a synonym for stealing (taking without permission).