Definition of "emancipists" [emancipists]

• Plural form of emancipist. (noun)

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• "I do not mean to say that, among the class called emancipists, consisting of persons who have been convicts, there may not be found men and women who have become thoroughly reformed and fit to adorn society."
• "These freemen objected violently to Macquarie's efforts to secure social equality for the emancipists (pardoned convicts or those who had served their time) and to discourage free immigration."
• "The government granted land freely to immigrants and to emancipists, in addition to whom large numbers of squatters began to occupy grazing lands."