The book's title literally describes what happened after slaves achieved emancipation — newly freed people became ill with diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and yellow fever.
In order to gain control of her spiritual gifts, fully develop her femininity, and achieve emancipation, she must endure the hardships of a repressive marriage.
Eastern religions are concerned with humankind's struggle to understand and cope with the predicament of its existence in the world and to achieve emancipation, enlightenment, and unity with the Absolute.
With respect to social function, Beethoven was actually the first musician of stature to achieve emancipation in the sense that his work reflected, with relatively few exceptions, purely personal artistic concerns.
"We have achieved cultural emancipation," he told me.
Leipzig began and Waterloo achieved the emancipation of the French people from the bloody, selfish and sterile domination of the Corsican Ogre.
The French Jews achieved their emancipation largely at the cost of Jewish particularity.
To escape the dreaded rebirths is to achieve final emancipation (mokṣa).
It's an attractive proposition, intended to shift the international balance of power and help developing nations break away from aid dependence and achieve true emancipation from former colonial powers.
God is assumed to manifest himself also in three other figures, mythologically his brothers, who, each with his own responsibility, have not only a creative but also an ethical function, by which they assist those who seek to achieve final emancipation.
But, as we discuss in our new book, "Influence: How Women's Soaring Economic Power will Transform Our World for the Better," what is new is the way that mothers around the world, through their efforts to support their families, are finally, at long last, beginning to achieve economic emancipation.
