Can
Can verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.
Emancipate and can are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Emancipate" instead a verb "Can".
Emancipate
Emancipate verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).
Can and emancipate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Can" instead a verb "Emancipate".
Both words in one sentence
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Marcus Garvey in 1937: We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.
Source: Music / Uprising - Liberators can then go on to attack other slavery-practicing kingdoms to emancipate their slaves and add freedmen to their levies by destroying slave camps in captured provinces.
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