Naturally a Republic of enfranchised slaves made this the first article of its Constitution, while sense as well as instinct supplied the form.
Slaves cannot dispose of, or receive, by donation, unless they have been enfranchised conformably to law, or are expressly enfranchised by the act, by which the donation is made to them.
General Bolivar enfranchised his own slaves to the amount of between seven and eight hundred, and many proprietors followed his example.
It is much to be regretted that Washington enfranchised his slaves in the manner he did; because their poverty and indolence have furnished an ever ready argument for those who are opposed to emancipation.
Walsh[V] states that in Brazil there are six hundred thousand enfranchised persons, either Africans or of African descent, who were either slaves themselves or are the descendants of slaves.
When all the enfranchisedare educated, and not until then, will the great source of evil be removed from our politics which to-day endangers our future liberty of self-government.
Such a man would be an unwelcome visitor in the troubled districts where the "bull-dozing" system was compelling the enfranchised negro to vote the "right ticket.
Charles Beecher to educate his enfranchised negro neighbors; of his inviting them to his house, and laboring for the welfare of their souls.
She was enfranchisedof earthly restraints, enfranchised as the dead are from mortal obligations.
Kedzie was enfranchised and began to jump and squeal at the almost suffocating majesty.
Enfranchisement alone carries with it political rights, and these emancipated millions are no more enfranchised now than when they were slaves.
I approve it because I believe if it were put in the Constitution every black man in America, before five years could pass, would be enfranchised and weaponed with the ballot for the protection of life, liberty, and property.
Suppose the English Parliament had given equal rights to the Irish, had enfranchised the Catholics in Ireland in the reign of Henry VIII, long ere this peace and harmony would have prevailed between England and Ireland.
No poorest in thy borders but may now Lift to the juster skies a man's enfranchised brow.
As Mr. Bingham's great speech was on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, every principle he laid down literally enfranchised the women of the nation.
In the course of his life he enfranchised individual slaves.
It was provided that if a father sold his son and if the son was afterwards enfranchised by the purchaser, he became again the slave of his father, who might sell him a second, and, if manumission again ensued, a third time.
The Charter promised political enfranchisement to the labouring people, and once enfranchised they could work out by legislation their own social salvation.
They enfranchised slaves, to show that devotion to the gods induced a sympathy with men.
Newark was enfranchised by a Royal Charter, the last case of that kind of exercise of the prerogative.
Durham was enfranchisedby Act of Parliament, as Chester city and county—hitherto kept distinct as being a Palatinate—were by 34 & 35 Hen.
For a moment it is a pleasant fancy to imagine that there the souls of Keats and Shelley uttered their enfranchised music, not in rivalry but in welcome.
That land of the great unwritten poems, the great unpainted pictures: what a heritance there for the enfranchised spirits of great dreamers!
On the 18th of March he received an invitation from Odysseus and other chiefs to attend a conference at Salona, and by the same messenger an offer from the government to appoint him "governor-general of the enfranchised parts of Greece.
The Second Reform Bill of 1867 enfranchised a very much greater number of citizens, and the increasing wealth and the increasing demands for educational advantages led to an insistence for a further extension along secondary and higher lines.
This reapportioned the membership of the House on a more equitable basis, and enfranchised those who owned or leased lands or buildings of a value of £10 a year.
The sudden burst of liberty, for which it was not prepared, agitated without strengthening it: it evinced all the vices of enfranchised men without having got the virtues of the free man.
It adopted the sentiment of the Roman poet, himself an enfranchised slave, who wrote: Homo sum, et humani a me nil alienum puto.
When he was come into Asia, to gratify Theopompus, the author of the collection of fables, he enfranchised the Cnidians, and remitted one third of their tribute to all the people of the province of Asia.
This is one of the reasons why sheriffs can draw the line where they please, and why some towns which have been enfranchised never obtain a secure place in the list of parliamentary boroughs.
Unweary God me yet shall bring To lands of brighter air, Where I, now half a king, Shall with enfranchised spirit loudlier sing, And wear a bolder front than that which now I wear Beside the Susquehannah and along the Delaware.
Upon what state of existence David White entered when eternity closed its everlasting portals, and the enfranchised spirit went up to the Eternal Judge, it is not for me to say.
Enfranchised Europe, foretold by Lafayette, means not only the Republic for all, but Peace for all; it means the United States of Europe, with the War System abolished.
In more than twenty states it is a practical impossibility to amend the state constitutions; so the women of those States can only be enfranchised by the passage of the federal suffrage amendment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enfranchised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
