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- noun Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment.
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- noun Alternative form of
disinthrallment .
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Examples
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At that May 7-11 convention in Raleigh, Bickley asserted that the KGC would, if well managed, “lead to the disenthrallment of the cotton States from the oppressive majority of the manufacturing and commercial interests of the North.”
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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But our door stands wide open also towards the Indians and Chinese, and all the arguments that appeal to us so strongly for the disenthrallment of women in heathen lands, appeal with equal, yea greater force for the heathen in our own land, whom the _Gospel only_ can make free.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 Various
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What position could have been taken showing the necessity of disenthrallment from oppressive government?
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So shall we hasten the day of our final disenthrallment There is one thing the
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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This was the meaning of Jefferson, when he penned the _text-words_ of disenthrallment: 'All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'
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The hour of revolution is at hand -- of social regeneration, disenthrallment, redemption, over all the world.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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He has certainly shown himself brave in the battle-field, and more brave and determined than any other nation in the vindication and maintenance of the natural rights of the white man; but he is not done with the business of disenthrallment.
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She made up her mind to do something for the education of free Colored girls, with the idea that through the influence of educated Colored women she could lay the solid foundations for the disenthrallment of their race.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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We can now begin to see with clearness that the colored man's disenthrallment is to become the white man's future security.
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Women have had the courage of conviction and demanded the disenthrallment of women in Utah.
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