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Emancipation

Emancipation: freeing people from legal, political, or social controls; from Roman-law emancipatio through Kant, Marx, the Emancipation Proclamation, Rancière's intellectual emancipation, and critical theory.

Emancipation (2022 film)

Emancipation (2022) is an Apple Original Films historical drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Will Smith as Peter, an escaped Louisiana slave inspired by the 1863 "Whipped Peter" photographs; released December 2, 2022 in theaters and December 9 on Apple TV+.

Emancipation (Prince album)

Emancipation is Prince's 19th studio album, a three-CD, 36-song, three-hour set released November 19, 1996 on NPG Records/EMI, his first after leaving Warner Bros., debuting at number 11 on Billboard.

Emancipation Day

Emancipation Day, also called August First Day or West India Day, commemorates the abolition of slavery. Observed August 1 for the 1834 British Slavery Abolition Act across the Caribbean and Canada, with other dates such as April 16 in Washington, D.C., August 8 in Tennessee, and Juneteenth.

Emancipation decree of 22 January 1863

The Emancipation decree of 22 January 1863 (Dekret o uwłaszczeniu chłopów) was an act of the insurgent Polish National Government making peasant land their hereditary property.

Emancipation Manifesto of 1861

The Emancipation Manifesto of 1861 (Манифест 19 февраля 1861 года) is the decree signed by Alexander II in 1861 that abolished serfdom in Russia, freeing about 23 million serfs.

Emancipation Memorial

The Emancipation Memorial, or Freedman's Memorial, is Thomas Ball's 1876 bronze statue in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., funded by freed Black Americans, modeled on Archer Alexander, criticized by Frederick Douglass, and contested in 2020.

Emancipation of Labour

Emancipation of Labour (Освобождение труда) was the first Russian Marxist organization, founded in Geneva in 1883 by Plekhanov and four other émigrés; it dissolved into the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in 1903.

Emancipation of minors

Emancipation of minors, also called judicial emancipation or "divorce from parents," is the legal process freeing a minor from parental authority before the age of majority, typically age 18; routes include court order, marriage, and military enlistment, with rules set state by state.

Emancipation of the Baltic peasants

The emancipation of the Baltic peasants freed serfs in Estonia, Courland, and Livonia by laws of 1816 to 1819, granting personal freedom without land, decades before 1861.

Emancipation of the Serfs (1861)

The Emancipation of the Serfs (Крестьянская реформа 1861 года) was the 1861 reform by which Alexander II abolished serfdom, freeing more than twenty million serfs.

Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) was Lincoln's wartime executive order freeing enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states, exempting loyal border states, and enabling Black Union military enlistment.

Emancipation reform of 1861

The Emancipation reform of 1861 (Emancipation Manifesto of 19 February 1861) abolished serfdom in the Russian Empire under Alexander II, freeing about 23 million private-estate serfs with allotments, 49-year redemption payments, and temporary obligations.

Oct 22, 2026

Emancipation reform of 1864 in Congress Poland

The emancipation reform of 1864 in Congress Poland was decreed by Tsar Alexander II, giving peasants full land ownership free of redemption payments and ending serfdom there.

Oct 21, 2026

Emanuel

Emanuel (Emanuel Fernando Scheffer Rego, born 1973, Curitiba) is a retired Brazilian beach volleyball player; only man to play the first five Olympic beach volleyball tournaments, with 2004 gold, 2008 bronze, 2012 silver, three world titles, and a record 151 international gold medals.

Emanuel Augustus

Emanuel Augustus (Emanuel Ya'kov Burton, "The Drunken Master", "The Outlaw"), American boxer 1994-2011, record 38-34-6 (20 KOs); Ring 2001 Fight of the Year vs Micky Ward; Mayweather's toughest opponent.

Emanuel Bronner

Emanuel Bronner, born Emil Heilbronner and known as Dr. Bronner, was a German-Jewish soapmaker who founded Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps in 1948 and printed his Moral ABC philosophy on the labels.

Sep 27, 2026

Emanuel Cleaver

Emanuel Cleaver II, born 1944, is a Democratic U.S. Representative for Missouri's 5th district, first elected in 2004, who previously served as Kansas City's first African American mayor.

Emanuel Donchin

Emanuel Donchin (1935–2018) was an Israeli-born psychophysiologist who helped establish event-related brain potentials as a measure of cognition; his Illinois laboratory characterized the P300 and built a P300-based brain-computer interface.

Emanuel Epstein

Emanuel Epstein (1916–2022) was an American plant physiologist at UC Davis, called the father of modern root physiology, who first applied enzyme kinetics to ion uptake in roots.

Sep 27, 2026

Emanuel Jones

Emanuel Jones is an American Democratic politician who has represented Georgia's 10th Senate district since 2004, authored Senate Bill 209, and founded Legacy Automotive Group in 1993.

Emanuel Knill

Emanuel Knill is a quantum information scientist and NIST Fellow in Boulder, Colorado, known for the Knill–Laflamme error-correction theory, fault-tolerance thresholds, the KLM linear-optical protocol, and randomized benchmarking.

Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player and mathematician who held the World Chess Championship for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, longer than any other champion.

Sep 19, 2026

Emanuel Lehman

Emanuel Lehman (1827–1907) was a Bavarian-born businessman who co-founded Lehman Brothers with his brothers in Montgomery, Alabama in 1850, opening the firm's New York office in 1858.

Emanuel Leutze

Emanuel Leutze, full name Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816–1868), was a German-born American history painter known for Washington Crossing the Delaware and a Capitol mural.

Emanuel Margoliash

Emanuel Margoliash (1920–2008) was an Egyptian-born biochemist and molecular evolutionist who sequenced cytochrome c and, with Walter Fitch, published the 1967 paper credited with founding molecular phylogenetics.

Emanuel Michael Sachs

Emanuel Michael "Ely" Sachs is an American mechanical engineer and MIT professor who invented binder-jet 3D printing in the 1980s and co-founded 1366 Technologies and Desktop Metal.

Emanuel Navarrete

Emanuel "Vaquero" Navarrete (Emanuel Navarrete Martínez), Mexican boxer, 40-2-1 with 33 KOs; three-division WBO champion (122, 126, 130 lbs), unified WBO-IBF super featherweight champion in 2026, facing O'Shaquie Foster October 24, 2026.