The term emancipation derives from the Latin ēmancĭpo/ēmancĭpatio (the act of liberating a child from parental authority) which in turn stems from ē manu capere (capture from someone else's hand).
In other words, as stipulated in the Constitution of the United States of America. Notes on Political and Human Emancipation, Mark Rupert, Syracuse University. https://web.archive.org/web/20090322060613/http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/merupert/political_and_human_emancipation.htm ↩
"Emancipation Movements | Slavery and Remembrance". http://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=A0077 ↩