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postemancipation

postemancipation adjective: after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Adjective

postemancipation (not comparable)

  1. (US) After the Emancipation Proclamation.
    • …coal companies conspired with the prisons, court systems, and governments in each of those states to implement one of the more egregious forms of racial exploitation imposed on postemancipation blacks.2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race, page 9

Origin of postemancipation

From post- + emancipation.

Questions about postemancipation

What does postemancipation mean?
Postemancipation means after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What part of speech is postemancipation?
Postemancipation is an adjective.

Words near postemancipation in the dictionary

  1. Postell
  2. Postellian
  3. Postells
  4. Postels
  5. Postema
  6. postemancipation
  7. Postemas
  8. postembedding
  9. postembolisation
  10. postembolization
  11. postembryo

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