being set free by the owner (manumission), voluntarily or in accordance with laws requiring it after a certain time or in certain cases, thereby becoming freedman (e.g. Emancipation Proclamation)
Jewish emancipation in which the Jews were given citizenship rights in France in 1791 and in the rest of Europe through the nineteenth century, particularly after 1848. In some parts of eastern Europe such as Romania Jews were not emancipated until after the First World War.
