Emancipation in United States
Emancipation Definition
An act by which a person who was once in the power of another is rendered free. This is of importance mainly in relation to the emancipation of minors from the parental control. [1] For more meanings of it, read Emancipation in the Legal Dictionary here.
Practical Information
The act whereby one is set free from the control of others. When a child is emancipated from his or her parents the duty of care is renounced along with the right to the custody and earnings of such child.
(Revised by Ann De Vries)
Emancipation Background
Emancipation of Slavery
See antislavery and the antislavery movement.
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Notes
1. This definition of Emancipation is based on The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary.
Further Reading
Clarence-Smith, William, ed. The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1989.
Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1981.
Cooper, Frederick. From Slaves to Squatters. Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890–1925. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980.
Costa, Emilia Viotti da. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Pease, Jane, and William Pease. Bound With Them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Wiecek, William M. The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760–1848. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
Willis, John Ralph, ed. Islam and the Ideology of Slavery. Vol. I of Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa. London: Frank Cass, 1985.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1969.
Yellin, Jean Fagan. Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.
Zilversmit, Arthur. The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
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