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The slaves, who were liberated by a generous master, immediately entered into the middle class of libertines or freedmen; but they could never be enfranchised from the duties of obedience and gratitude; whatever were the fruits of their industry, their patron and his family inherited the third part; or even the whole of their fortune, if they died without children and without a testament.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

A general synod can alone consummate the union of the churches; nor can such a synod be held till the three Oriental patriarchs, and a great number of bishops, are enfranchised from the Mahometan yoke.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

(whom we will therefore call enfranchised burghers) are in like manner of two kinds.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

Nowadays, women who are doing much work out in the big world -- the so-called "enfranchised" women -- are many of them proving that they find housework no detriment to their careers and some even admit that they enjoy it.

American Cookery November, 1921 Various 1892

The 1857 Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of Indian Tribes that "enfranchised" men over 21 who met specific criteria, not only stripped them of their Indian status, but that of their wives and children as well.

Progressive Bloggers 2009

The 1857 Act to Encourage the Gradual Civilization of Indian Tribes that "enfranchised" men over 21 who met specific criteria, not only stripped them of their Indian status, but that of their wives and children as well.

Molly'sBlog 2009

For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils — one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth, and forget the past in my union with her.

Chapter 18 2010

Now he has been forced to concede that only those sentenced to less than a year should be enfranchised.

Votes for prisoners: Bang to rights | Editorial 2011

Bismarck taught the king to bury the Prussian towns in an ­avalanche of votes from newly enfranchised and resentful peasants, who he rallied with demagogic rhetoric, calling the perfectly reasonable Prussian liberals "loafers, freebooters, all sorts of scum."

The Shrewdest of the Shrewd Geoffrey Wawro 2011

Under such a system, every citizen including the 50 million who are now unregistered would be automatically enfranchised.

Curtis Gans: A Proposed Solution to Voter ID Controversy Curtis Gans 2011