🇺🇸ap us history review

Emancipation

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

The process of freeing enslaved people from bondage, gradually achieved in Northern states through abolitionist and antislavery reform movements.

AP course connection

Topic 4.11: 4.11 An Age of Reform

Unit 4