Emancipation

Emancipation is any of various efforts to procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more generally in discussion of such matters. Emancipation stems from ēx manus capere ('detach from the hand'). Among others, Karl Marx discussed political emancipation in his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question", although often in addition to (or in contrast with) the term human emancipation. Marx's views of political emancipation in this work were summarized by one writer as entailing "equal status of individual citizens in relation to the state, equality before the law, regardless of religion, property, or other “private” characteristics of individual people."^[1]

"Political emancipation" as a phrase is less common in modern usage, especially outside academic, foreign or activist contexts. However, similar concepts may be referred to by other terms. For instance, in the United States the civil rights movement culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 can be seen as further realization of events such as the Emancipation Proclamation and abolition of slavery a century earlier. In the current and former British West Indies islands the holiday Emancipation Day is celebrated to mark the end of the Atlantic slave trade.

See also

• Freedom (political)
• Emancipation of women, including the women's suffrage movement
• Catholic emancipation
• Jewish emancipation
• Emancipation of minors, where a minor becomes an adult in practice, usually by receiving a declaration of liberation from a court expressly for this purpose
• Youth rights
• Dunmore's Proclamation, a British promise during the American Revolutionary War to free slaves who joined the British forces
• Abolitionism of slavery, a political movement that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade
• Emancipation Proclamation, a declaration by United States President Abraham Lincoln announcing that all slaves in Confederate territory still in rebellion were freed
• Manumission, the freedom of a slave by the owner voluntarily
• Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, the liquidation of serfdom for Russian peasants by Alexander II of Russia
• Tanzimat, the gradual emancipation of non-Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century
• Emancipist was a term used for former transported convicts in the Australian penal colonies given conditional or absolute pardon
• Self-determination
• Revolution (disambiguation)
• Liberation (disambiguation)

References

Further reading

• Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik Karl Marx as a Philosopher of Human Emancipation, translated by Dylan C. Stewart

External links

• The dictionary definition of emancipation at Wiktionary
•  "Emancipation". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 

Liberalism Development Contributions to liberal theory History of liberalism Ideas Political freedom Cultural liberalism Democratic capitalism Democratic education Economic liberalism Free trade Individualism Laissez-faire Liberal democracy Liberal neutrality Market economy Negative / positive liberty Open society Popular sovereignty Rights (individual) Separation of church and state Schools American liberalism Anarcho-liberalism Civic nationalism Classical liberalism Conservative liberalism Democratic liberalism Green liberalism Liberal feminism Liberal internationalism Libertarianism National liberalism Neoliberalism Ordoliberalism Paleoliberalism Radical centrism Radicalism Secular liberalism Social liberalism Key figures Frédéric Bastiat Jeremy Bentham Isaiah Berlin Anders Chydenius Adam Ferguson Milton Friedman David Lloyd George William Ewart Gladstone Thomas Hill Green Václav Havel Friedrich Hayek Leonard Hobhouse Wilhelm von Humboldt David Hume Thomas Jefferson Immanuel Kant Adamantios Korais Wilfrid Laurier John Locke Thomas Babington Macaulay Salvador de Madariaga Giuseppe Mazzini James Mill John Stuart Mill Ludwig von Mises Montesquieu Robert Nozick Thomas Paine Lester B. Pearson John Rawls David Ricardo Franklin D. Roosevelt Murray Rothbard Adam Smith Alexis de Tocqueville Pierre Trudeau Mary Wollstonecraft Regional variants By country Europe United States Organisations Liberal parties Africa Liberal Network (ALN) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDEP) Arab Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AAFD) Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) European Democratic Party (EDP) European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY) Liberal International Liberal Network for Latin America (Relial) Liberal South East European Network (LIBSEEN) Liberalism portal Politics portal