He emancipated women and required them to discard their veils (1935).
He emancipated the peasantry, eliminated torture, and separated insane asylums from prisons.
He emancipated the slaves and negotiated for the French colony on Hispaniola, Saint-Domingue (later Haiti), to be governed, briefly, by black former slaves as a French protectorate.
He emancipated the fu prose poems from strict conventions and left superb examples of these as well as of the newer ci (lyrics set to popular tunes) and other literary forms.
During the period following Otakar's death (remembered as the "evil years"), Wenceslas was a mere puppet in the hands of ambitious lords, but in 1290 he emancipated himself from the tutelage and ruled with more success than had his father.
For Howells, Twain's significance was apparently social the humorist, Howells wrote, spoke to and for the common American man and woman; he emancipated and dignified the speech and manners of a class of people largely neglected by writers (except as objects of fun or disapproval) and largely ignored by genteel America.
He did not abolish slavery completely, as Peru had 40,000 slaveowners, and declared "freedom of wombs" instead, which emancipated the sons of slaves; he emancipated as well the slaves of the royalists who left Lima.
Nathaniel Crane, a member of Montclair's founding family, left the house to James How, a slave he had emancipated.
After suffering a series of reverses, Fremont, who commanded federal forces in Missouri, declared that he would emancipate the slaves owned by his Confederate opponents.
After all, if Virginia had to be forced to drop its ban on interracial marriage, it was also the state where, in 1834, Ralph Quarles, a prosperous white plantation owner and hero of the American Revolution, was buried side by side with his slave Lucy Langston, whom he had emancipated along with their four children.
From that time forward he was emancipated from the control of his father, and became sui juris (Gaius, I.130; Ulpian, Frag. X.5; Tac. Ann. IV.16).
