manumission


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man·u·mit

 (măn′yə-mĭt′)
tr.v. man·u·mit·ted, man·u·mit·ting, man·u·mits
To free from slavery or bondage; emancipate.

[Middle English manumitten, from Old French manumitter, from Latin manūmittere : manū, ablative of manus, hand; see man- in Indo-European roots + mittere, to send from.]

man′u·mis′sion (-mĭsh′ən) n.
man′u·mit′ter n.
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manumission

(ˌmænjʊˈmɪʃən)
n
the act of freeing or the state of being freed from slavery, servitude, etc
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manumission

the act of setting free or being set free from slavery; emancipation.
See also: Freedom
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Noun1.manumission - the formal act of freeing from slaverymanumission - the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"
freeing, liberation, release - the act of liberating someone or something
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manumission

noun freeing, release, liberation, emancipation, deliverance, unchaining, enfranchisement The country's manumission began in 1762.
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manumission

noun
The state of not being in confinement or servitude:
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* The manumission of the slaves in New York has been gradual.
began at the city's Civic Halls in 1996 and became the world's second biggest club night - second only to Manumission in Ibiza - having welcomed nearly one million customers through its doors.
His topics are the debate on the relative priority of Torah and the Prophets, Torah as covenantal instruction, scribal enculturation and embodied Torah, instructions on divorce and remarriage, Sabbath instruction, manumission instructions, instructions on fasting, and pastiches of Torah.
Chapter 2 discusses mixed-race children and is extended to revisit access to manumission. Planters more frequently manumitted these children, but as Vasconcellos asserts, viewing the frequency of such manumissions requires a sophisticated interpretation of race and paternity in relation to the plantation economy.
The show does not exaggerate Alexander Hamilton's opposition to slavery--he was a founding member of the New York Manumission Society, which worked, de spite political pressure, for the liberation of slaves and eventual abolition of slavery.
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The freedom paper, or manumission, was donated by Demas' great-great-great grandson Benjamin Hall of Eaton Rapids.
Cottrol argues that the Roman legal tradition, which provided the foundation for slave laws in Latin America, allowed greater opportunity for manumission, protected the limited rights of slaves, and guaranteed their rights as citizens once they were emancipated.
Indeed, when it comes to documents that promise or grant manumission, Phillips rightly points out that the majority of slaves freed in this way actually bought their freedom while others were freed once they became too old and frail to work.
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