Sentences with word «emancipation»

In 1853, residents commemorated the anniversary of emancipation of slaves...

Bratton said the NYPD is working with the Caribbean community to make J'Ouvert — an outdoor celebration of emancipation from slavery that typically marks the beginning of carnival — an «authorized event» after years of the parade - like gathering happening unofficially.

Mathieu K. Abonnenc devotes his work to the forgotten or marginalised areas of recent history, figures and events associated with the 20th century's struggles for emancipation of identity.

5) Sadly it took yet another World War for women to experience a new golden age of emancipation in terms of employment outside of the home.

In Sharon Hayes's recent exhibition «Public Appearance,» nothing is one - dimensional when it comes to movements of political emancipation from the late 1960s onward.

In much contemporary discourse, freedom is seen as emancipation from God.

To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and happiness.

As she sees it, the growing success of the feminist movement combined with emancipation from domestic labor via technology to create a crisis for American society just after World War II, when millions of returning servicemen were flooding the job market.

The family heirlooms played a role in the story of emancipation by functioning as coded maps that guided escaped slaves to freedom.

Vice President Bawumia challenged the financial institutions, the telcos and the Fintechs to find very innovative ways of turning mobile phones and the mobile money platform into vehicles of economic emancipation for the many players in the huge informal sector.

Pennsylvania made provision for gradual emancipation of slaves.

The idea of women's sexual emancipation in this film, the «independent woman» moment, is when Ana (while looking at a sexual contract that is central to the film) says «no» to one particularly violent sexual act.

In the Collective's own words, «unravel worlds, make questions, haunt memorials, and follow the tangled threads of how histories and ways of thinking about emancipation intersect.»

Christians like William Wilberforce and Theodore Wright were at the forefront of emancipation movements in their day.

Humanists attach too much importance to their own emancipation from Christianity and its «social power», and this prevents them from actual positive engagement.

In that sense, it forms a unique bridge able to address a variety of topics, such as female emancipation and black consciousness.

He was very jovial...» It was a deeply moving reminder that the history of black emancipation in America is short in the relative sweep of history.

In rare instances, an older child may request emancipation if she no longer desires to have a relationship with a parent.

The Scientific Humanitarian Committee was then the world's leading homosexual emancipation group, boasting a membership of about 100 people.

Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea 1829The Duke, who was then prime minister, fought a duel with Lord Winchilsea after he had introduced the final steps in catholic emancipation.

They recognized that preparation was necessary, so they urged immediate emancipation as a gradual process to begin immediately.

Carnivals in the Caribbean originated as freedom festivals following emancipation and continue to exist as celebrations of life, liberty, and, of course, rum.

A number of artists from Europe, Asia and elsewhere migrated to the United States, looking for cultural emancipation and an inspiring jolt for their creations and them as individuals.

Such emancipation sometimes includes school refusal, with or without the permission of the parent.

Beyond looking at the road trip from a nostalgic point of view, On the Road explores the idea of such a drive as a rite of passage, a journey toward emancipation on the way to a destination that may be largely unknown but which holds the promise of liberating self - discovery.

Marshall tackles the history of slavery, race politics, black power or social emancipation in bold but ambiguous ways

In it Paula Hyman, Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale, traces the efforts of the Jews of France since the Revolution to enjoy the benefits of emancipation without disappearing through assimilation.

The handbag was part of the changes brought about after the First World War and the increasing emancipation of women, for whom carrying a bag became a sign of independence and stature.

So the movement towards emancipation from rules leads us ironically into ever - greater episodes of self - righteousness (the secular press makes the Pharisees of Jesus» day seem downright latitudinarian) and scape - goating (and the bigger the goat the better: e.g., Joe Paterno).

«In the case of blockchain technology, which is still largely immature, I'm trying to understand whether and how we can push the technology more towards the values of individual emancipation, collaboration, and disintermediation.

Akin to the mysteries was Hermeticism, which sought emancipation of the spirit from matter.

Specifically, the court reviewed whether the father of a 17 - year old daughter who had left home and obtained a legal emancipation order was responsible for financial supporting her through university.

The secularist who regards secularization as a matter of winning complete emancipation from the old heritage, is in fact turning secularism into an absolute, and without realizing it, he is in danger of becoming enslaved to a new form of idolatry.

On the contrary, identity politics can go against emancipation.

She champions the importance of women's sensual pleasure and she examines the possibilities of political and personal emancipation from predominant social and aesthetic conventions.

Whether or not emancipation from church be the necessary condition or the inevitable result of intellectual excellence, it behooves us to understand the history and the elemental structure of this secularization.

As they put it, «In fine, it is immediate emancipation which is gradually accomplished.»

What they needed was a real - world example of emancipation leading to peace and prosperity, as their speculative arguments insisted it would, and this Haiti most definitely was not.

The question was being recast in terms of a constitutional and moral crisis, with Northern calls for emancipation becoming ever more adamant.