also
ترك |فقد

it could mean many things, apart from the above it could also mean

تَخَلَّى عن

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/identity/text2/...

Before the general emancipation of American slaves during the Civil War, many secured their own freedom through escape, self-purchase, or being freed by the slaveholder. How did it feel to shed the status of "slave" and become free? The conditions of "former slave" and "freeman" did not occur simultaneously for many slaves, psychologically or in reality. Runaways who arrived in free territory were "fugitives" with an ambiguous status for weeks or years, especially after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. During the Civil War, slaves in Union-occupied territory were "contrabands" with a similar ambiguous status. How African Americans defined their identity as newly freed men and women (before general emancipation) is the focus of this section.


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ألقى بثوب

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لقد تخلص الفن في هذه البلاد من صفة المحلية منذ وقت بعيد

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لقد تجاوز الفن في هذا البلد مراحله الأولى منذ وقت بعيد