emancipations

Noun

emancipation (usually uncountable, plural emancipations)

1. (usually) The act of setting free from the power of another, as from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence.
   • Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 308

   Synonyms:

   manumission

2. (usually) The state of being thus set free; liberation (used, for example, of slaves from bondage, of a person from prejudices, of the mind from superstition, of a nation from tyranny or subjugation).
   • US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.