Emancipate: alternatives and connections

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.

The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from…

To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liber…

To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to cle…

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave.

The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; --…

To manumit.