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noun

Enfranchisement n.

Releasing from slavery or custody.

Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.

Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold.

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Etymology of 'Enfranchisement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enfranchisement" Quotes from Famous Books

... desire to be understood as inveighing against the manumission of the slave or the enfranchisement of the new-made free man. To do so, would be most paradoxical on my part, who was born a slave and spent the first nine years of my life in that most unnatural condition. What I do inveigh against, is the unequal manner in which the colored people were pitted against the white ...

— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune

... life exemplified the very truth I have been seeking to enforce. Full of courage and zeal, she withstood all the prejudices of her birth and surroundings, freed her own slaves, and then devoted herself with voice and pen to the Anti-Slavery cause, to the enfranchisement of woman, and to every good word and work that she could aid. Her high literary attainments, as well as her earnest purpose, gave her great power of thought and expression, and she was the wise counselor of many of the foremost men and women ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

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