A convict who has served out their sentence or has been pardoned.
he married the daughter of a wealthy emancipist
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a staunch opponent of both emancipist rights and convict privileges.
- He had marked himself out as a man with dangerously liberal ideas, a supporter of convicts and emancipists.
- An emancipist sawyer who previously murdered three people violently beat to death his lover.
- The free settlers in this area were the leading opponents of his favouring of the emancipist cause.
- Self-conscious of his native-born status and his parents' emancipist background, he strove to express poetically the voice of the new country.
- By his defence of the emancipists, he had awakened a political instinct among the people of Sydney and become their hero.
- He was popular with the emancipists and had no difficulty with his assigned convicts.
- The early squatters relied on convicts and emancipists to provide the labour on their stations.
- He was one of twenty most important emancipist landholders next in New South Wales.
- The status of the emancipist was one already hotly contested.