It's the Word of the Day podcast for June 19th.
Today's word is emancipation, spelled E-M-A-N-C-I-P-A-T-I-O-N.
Emancipation is a noun.
It refers to the act of freeing someone from the restraint, control, or power of another.
It's used especially for the act of freeing someone from slavery.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Culpeper Star Exponent.
Rappahannock County's calming beauty and rolling hills hold stories from the Civil War era waiting to be told.
Howard Lambert,
a Culpeper native and the first African American president of the Brandy Station Foundation,
has worked tirelessly to bring these stories to life, especially those of black Civil War soldiers.
He also has a personal connection to the Civil War.
His great-great-uncle, Fielding Turner,
served in the 20th United States Colored Troops Infantry Regiment,
fighting in pivotal battles and helping to announce emancipation in Texas,
now commemorated as Juneteenth.
To emancipate someone, including oneself, is to free them from restraint, control,
or the power of another, and especially to free them from bondage or enslavement.
It follows that the noun emancipation refers to the act or practice of emancipating.
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, for example,
ordered that enslaved people living in the Confederate states be released from the bonds of ownership and made free people.