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First, in two chapters I have tried to show what Emancipation meant to them, and what was its aftermath.
Chpt Fore *

emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
Here in America, in the few days since Emancipation, the black man's turning hither and thither in hesitant and doubtful striving has often made his very strength to lose effectiveness, to seem like absence of power, like weakness.†
Chpt 1
To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes of wearied Israelites.†
Chpt 1
Had not votes made war and emancipated millions?†
Chpt 1
Here at last seemed to have been discovered the mountain path to Canaan; longer than the highway of Emancipation and law, steep and rugged, but straight, leading to heights high enough to overlook life.†
Chpt 1

emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
If, however, the vistas disclosed as yet no goal, no resting-place, little but flattery and criticism, the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination; it changed the child of Emancipation to the youth with dawning self-consciousness, self-realization, self-respect.†
Chpt 1
Then the long-headed man with care-chiselled face who sat in the White House saw the inevitable, and emancipated the slaves of rebels on New Year's, 1863.†
Chpt 2
Directly after the Emancipation Proclamation, Representative Eliot had introduced a bill creating a Bureau of Emancipation; but it was never reported.†
Chpt 2

emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
Petitions came in to President Lincoln from distinguished citizens and organizations, strongly urging a comprehensive and unified plan of dealing with the freedmen, under a bureau which should be "charged with the study of plans and execution of measures for easily guiding, and in every way judiciously and humanely aiding, the passage of our emancipated and yet to be emancipated blacks from the old condition of forced labor to their new state of voluntary industry."†
Chpt 2
Petitions came in to President Lincoln from distinguished citizens and organizations, strongly urging a comprehensive and unified plan of dealing with the freedmen, under a bureau which should be "charged with the study of plans and execution of measures for easily guiding, and in every way judiciously and humanely aiding, the passage of our emancipated and yet to be emancipated blacks from the old condition of forced labor to their new state of voluntary industry."†
Chpt 2
Thus did the United States government definitely assume charge of the emancipated Negro as the ward of the nation.†
Chpt 2
Less than a month after the weary Emancipator passed to his rest, his successor assigned Major-Gen. Oliver O. Howard to duty as Commissioner of the new Bureau.†
Chpt 2

emancipator = someone who releases another from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
It had long been the more or less definitely expressed theory of the North that all the chief problems of Emancipation might be settled by establishing the slaves on the forfeited lands of their masters,—a sort of poetic justice, said some.†
Chpt 2

emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
The war cloud had thinned enough to allow a clearer conception of the work of Emancipation.†
Chpt 2
Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free Negro labor was possible without a system of restrictions that took all its freedom away; there was scarcely a white man in the South who did not honestly regard Emancipation as a crime, and its practical nullification as a duty.†
Chpt 2
After the war and emancipation, the great form of Frederick Douglass, the greatest of American Negro leaders, still led the host.†
Chpt 3
They already dimly perceive that the paths of peace winding between honest toil and dignified manhood call for the guidance of skilled thinkers, the loving, reverent comradeship between the black lowly and the black men emancipated by training and culture.†
Chpt 6
Then came the revolution of war and Emancipation, the bewilderment of Reconstruction,—and now, what is the Egypt of the Confederacy, and what meaning has it for the nation's weal or woe?†
Chpt 7

emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
This is the direct heritage of the South from the wasteful economies of the slave regime; but it was emphasized and brought to a crisis by the Emancipation of the slaves.†
Chpt 8
This is no sudden development, nor the fruit of Emancipation.†
Chpt 8
This movement took place between Emancipation and 1880, and only partially accomplished the desired results.†
Chpt 8
If they had been given an economic start at Emancipation, if they had been in an enlightened and rich community which really desired their best good, then we might perhaps call such a result small or even insignificant.†
Chpt 8
After Emancipation, it was the plain duty of some one to assume this group leadership and training of the Negro laborer.†
Chpt 9
I have already pointed out how sorely in need of such economic and spiritual guidance the emancipated Negro was, and I am quite willing to admit that if the representatives of the best white Southern public opinion were the ruling and guiding powers in the South to-day the conditions indicated would be fairly well fulfilled.†
Chpt 9
In explaining this unfortunate development, we must note two things: (1) that the inevitable result of Emancipation was to increase crime and criminals, and (2) that the police system of the South was primarily designed to control slaves.†
Chpt 9

emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
These were the characteristics of Negro religious life as developed up to the time of Emancipation.†
Chpt 10
Such, then, is the large development of the Negro church since Emancipation.†
Chpt 10
After Emancipation, and still earlier in the North, the Negro churches largely severed such affiliations as they had had with the white churches, either by choice or by compulsion.†
Chpt 10
Thus, when Emancipation finally came, it seemed to the freedman a literal Coming of the Lord.†
Chpt 10

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(1) (emancipated)
released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
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