affranchise
enfranchise

In very rare circumstances, the city could affranchise a slave.

According to TheFreeDictionary.com, "to affranchise" means "to release from servitude or an obligation".

For the first time, all women and men over the age of 21 were enfranchised.

Chinese people were enfranchised for the first time in 1964.

"We're in the business of enfranchising people by giving them free information."

When you tell me that you've enfranchised all your people, you'll be there.

The bill enfranchised most men who lived in urban areas.

It would be a democratic society, enfranchising the entire population.

We should enfranchise all potential young voters, not just those who attend college.

"I want to make sure people can vote, that they are enfranchised.

"These women enfranchised 52 percent of the population, and they question the historical merit?"

Martin was arrested in 1910 over an issue of trying to enfranchise British women.

Only Christian men, if owning land, were enfranchised as citizens.

The legislation was ambiguous as to which communities were enfranchised.

This is what the great social and political movement to enfranchise the working class has deteriorated into.

The act enfranchised all white women, while certain property qualifications still applied to men.

The town was enfranchised in 1571 as a borough constituency.

At home we have enfranchised the paupers, and expect the most happy results.

It was enfranchised as a two member parliamentary borough from 1832.

This now enfranchised the middle classes, but failed to meet radical demands.

Belfast was a borough, which had been enfranchised in 1613.

Mr. Green said he believed both they and society would benefit from enfranchising these people.

The effort could enfranchise millions of people who have lived in this country for years without seeking citizenship.

She also suggested that, if this would not be possible, women 30-35 years old should be enfranchised.

I suppose he wasted no time in having two new regents enfranchised.

Instead of feeling enfranchised by their degrees, these graduates sense they are lost in the shuffle.