Philosophical concept

Emancipation

Emancipation is the legal and political act of release from slavery, whose reach depends on authority, territory, and enforcement.

Works
40
Passages
1,695
Thinkers
15
Traditions
10

Understand uses of the concept

Emancipation is the legal and political act of release from slavery, whose reach depends on authority, territory, and enforcement.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,695 passages across 40 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Politics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: émancipation, emancipation, emancipate, freedmen

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  6. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  7. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  10. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  11. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  12. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  14. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  15. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  16. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  17. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  18. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  19. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  20. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  21. The Theory of PsychoanalysisCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  22. The Qur’anMuhammad · 0 passages
  23. The AntichristFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  24. Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  25. Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  26. Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  27. Human, All Too Human IFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  28. Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the LawsPlato · 0 passages
  29. RepublicPlato · 0 passages
  30. Cato the YoungerPlutarch · 0 passages