emancipation
effort to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality
Catholic Emancipation
1700s–1800s reduction in anti-Catholic discrimination in the UK and Ireland
manumission
act of slave owner freeing an enslaved person; or the enslaved person buying his/her own freedom; or another person buying the freedom of an enslaved person
abolition of slavery
process of outlawing slavery
Jewish emancipation
processes of eliminating Jewish disabilities and granting civil liberties to Jews
emancipation movement in Germany
social movement