The Devil’s Dictionary by Abrose Bierce

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Emancipation
n. A bondman’s change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner’s name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own.
G.J.
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