Sentence examples for were emancipated from inspiring English sources
verb
To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
The serfs were emancipated in 1861, and thus all social restrictions were removed.
More than one million serfs were emancipated, and they now lead a happy life with a happy family.
Her parents were emancipated, either voluntarily by their owners, or at the end of the civil war.
African slaves composed about 10 percent of the population in the 1870s; they were emancipated in 1888.
Serfs of the state were emancipated in 1866 and allowed to keep the land they occupied against money rent.
The mission retreated and Aboriginals were emancipated but, as anthropologists have noted, no one in government spared a thought as to how to deinstitutionalise the islands.
Women were emancipating themselves.
"Amanda is emancipated," she reflects.
"Women have been emancipated," she declares proudly.
"Amantle is one of those people who has been emancipated".
When I was 14, I was emancipated by the courts.
