Emancipation
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| + | [[Image:Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple.jpg|thumb|200px|This page '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is part of the ''[[politics]]'' series.<br><small>Illustration:''[[Liberty Leading the People]]'' (1831, detail) by [[Eugène Delacroix]].</small>]] | ||
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| - | '''Emancipation''' is a term used to describe various efforts to obtain [[political rights]] or [[Egalitarianism|equality]], often for a specifically [[disenfranchised]] group, or more generally in discussion of such matters. | + | '''Emancipation''' is any of various efforts to procuring [[political rights]] or [[Egalitarianism|equality]], often for a specifically [[disenfranchised]] group, or more generally in discussion of such matters. Emancipation stems from ''[[wikt:en:ex#Latin|ēx]] [[wikt:en:manus#Latin|manus]] [[wikt:en:capio#Latin|capere]]'' ('take out the hand'). |
| + | Among others, [[Karl Marx]] discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "[[On the Jewish Question]]", although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the term ''human emancipation''. Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other “private” characteristics of individual people." | ||
| - | The word [[emancipation]] was in common use in political affairs of 18th and 19th century political discourse, as in the [[women's rights|women's emancipation movements]]. | + | "Political emancipation" as a [[phrase]] is less common in modern usage, especially outside academic, foreign or activist contexts. However, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, in the United States the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|civil rights movement]] culminating in the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], can be seen as further realization of events such as the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] and abolition of slavery a century earlier. In the current and former [[British West Indies]] islands the holiday [[Emancipation Day]] is celebrated to mark the end of the [[Atlantic slave trade]]. |
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| + | ==Etymology== | ||
| + | The term emancipation derives from the Latin ''ēmancĭpo/ēmancĭpatio'' (the act of liberating a child from parental authority) which in turn stems from ''ē manu capere'' (capture from someone else's hand). | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
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| + | * [[Freedom (political)]] | ||
| + | * [[Emancipation of women]], including the [[women's suffrage movement]] | ||
| + | * [[Catholic emancipation]] | ||
| + | * [[Jewish emancipation]] | ||
| + | * [[Emancipation of minors]], where a minor becomes an adult in practice, usually by receiving a declaration of liberation from a court expressly for this purpose | ||
| + | * [[Youth rights]] | ||
| + | * [[Dunmore's Proclamation]], a [[Great Britain|British]] promise during the [[American Revolutionary War]] to free slaves who joined the British forces | ||
| + | * [[Abolitionism]] of slavery, a political movement that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade | ||
| + | * [[Emancipation Proclamation]], a declaration by United States President Abraham Lincoln announcing that all slaves in Confederate territory still in rebellion were freed | ||
| + | * [[Manumission]], the freedom of a slave by the owner voluntarily | ||
| + | * [[Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia]], the liquidation of serf dependence of Russian peasants by Alexander II of Russia | ||
| + | * [[Emancipist]] was a term used for former transported convicts in the Australian penal colonies given conditional or absolute pardon | ||
| + | * [[Self-determination]] | ||
| + | * [[Revolution (disambiguation)]] | ||
| + | * [[Liberation (disambiguation)]] | ||
| - | The United States the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|civil rights movement]] can be seen as further realization of the abolition of slavery a century earlier. | ||
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Emancipation is any of various efforts to procuring political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more generally in discussion of such matters. Emancipation stems from ēx manus capere ('take out the hand'). Among others, Karl Marx discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question", although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the term human emancipation. Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other “private” characteristics of individual people."
"Political emancipation" as a phrase is less common in modern usage, especially outside academic, foreign or activist contexts. However, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, in the United States the civil rights movement culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, can be seen as further realization of events such as the Emancipation Proclamation and abolition of slavery a century earlier. In the current and former British West Indies islands the holiday Emancipation Day is celebrated to mark the end of the Atlantic slave trade.
Etymology
The term emancipation derives from the Latin ēmancĭpo/ēmancĭpatio (the act of liberating a child from parental authority) which in turn stems from ē manu capere (capture from someone else's hand).
See also
- Freedom (political)
- Emancipation of women, including the women's suffrage movement
- Catholic emancipation
- Jewish emancipation
- Emancipation of minors, where a minor becomes an adult in practice, usually by receiving a declaration of liberation from a court expressly for this purpose
- Youth rights
- Dunmore's Proclamation, a British promise during the American Revolutionary War to free slaves who joined the British forces
- Abolitionism of slavery, a political movement that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade
- Emancipation Proclamation, a declaration by United States President Abraham Lincoln announcing that all slaves in Confederate territory still in rebellion were freed
- Manumission, the freedom of a slave by the owner voluntarily
- Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, the liquidation of serf dependence of Russian peasants by Alexander II of Russia
- Emancipist was a term used for former transported convicts in the Australian penal colonies given conditional or absolute pardon
- Self-determination
- Revolution (disambiguation)
- Liberation (disambiguation)
