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  • Edict of Emancipation may refer to: The Emancipation Proclamation, an 1863 directive by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War The Prussian...
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    Even if some traditionalists opposed the Edict of Emancipation, it proved a major step towards Jewish emancipation in the German states during the 19th century...
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    The emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, also known as the Edict of Emancipation of Russia, (Russian: Крестьянская реформа 1861 года, romanized: Krestyanskaya...
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    The Edict of Milan (Latin: Edictum Mediolanense; Greek: Διάταγμα τῶν Μεδιολάνων, Diatagma tōn Mediolanōn) was the February, AD 313 agreement to treat Christians...
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  • Prussian virtues (category Culture of Prussia)
    the 1812 Edict of Emancipation that, with a few restrictions, granted Prussian Jews the same rights and duties as other citizens. The reform of the army...
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    The Edict of Expulsion was a royal decree expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England that was issued by Edward I on 18 July 1290; it was the first...
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    The Frémont Emancipation was part of a military proclamation issued by Major General John C. Frémont (1813–1890) on August 30, 1861, in St. Louis, Missouri...
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    continued by the Prussian administration. Only after the Prussian Edict of Emancipation of 11 March 1812, which granted Prussian citizenship to all Jews living...
    118 KB (11,471 words) - 09:00, 31 October 2024
  • jurisdiction of their lords. The edict of emancipation abolished this jurisdiction, and set up instead in each volost a court particular to the peasants, of which...
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  • serfs freedom of movement. The serfs of the Russian Empire were not given their personal freedom until Alexander II's Edict of Emancipation of 1861. At the...
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    Jessie Benton Frémont (category Spouses of California politicians)
    of the most impressive feats of her political career came shortly after Frémont lost his position during the Civil War for issuing his own edict of emancipation...
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  • Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom was the culmination in the 19th century of efforts over several hundred years[citation needed] to loosen the...
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    February 15, 1864, the sultan published an edict granting equal rights of justice to the Jews. This edict of emancipation was confirmed by Mohammed IV's son and...
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  • Karl Borromäus Alexander Sessa (category Dramatists and playwrights from the Kingdom of Prussia)
    Judenschule ('The Jewish School'), presumably in response to the Prussian Edict of Emancipation. The play portrayed Jewish characters in an extremely derogatory...
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    Russia's over 23 million (about 38% of the total population) privately held serfs were freed from their lords by an edict of Alexander II in 1861. The owners...
    51 KB (5,673 words) - 14:38, 2 November 2024
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    Deborah Hertz (category University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni)
    proceedings of a conference on the 200th Anniversary of the Edict of Emancipation sponsored by the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum at the University of Potsdam...
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    The edict of 1685 ratified the practice of slavery despite the conflicting legislation of the Kingdom of France and canon law. In fact, an Edict bringing...
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    La Capresse des Colonies (category Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    the 1848 emancipation of slaves in the French Empire, an edict which greatly inspired Cordier. It is part of a pair with The Jewish Woman of Algiers....
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    corruption were rampant. The Emancipation Reform of 1861 abolished serfdom on private estates throughout the Russian Empire. By this edict more than 23 million...
    91 KB (9,921 words) - 01:11, 4 November 2024
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    Caracalla (category People of Arab descent)
    the military. The edict widened the obligation for public service and gave increased revenue through the inheritance and emancipation taxes that only had...
    67 KB (7,620 words) - 12:41, 12 November 2024
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