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manumission::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | freeing, liberation, release |
| Derivation | manumit |
he believed in the manumission of the slaves.
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Firstly, manumission may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture.
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Muhammad encouraged manumission of slaves, even if one had to purchase them first.
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When the time came for Walker's promised manumission, Jennison refused to let him go.
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Following his departure, the Assembly passed a law in 1782 making manumission easier.
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Many individual acts of manumission freed thousands of slaves in total.
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Despite his critical actions, Armistead had to petition the Virginia legislature for manumission.
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However, women often fared better in manumission possibilities.
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Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves.
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The Talmud made many rulings which had the effect of making manumission easier and more likely.
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- The formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"
- Release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting
- A formal written act to free slaves
- A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave. (p. 505)
- Legal process (and related documents) by which enslaved Africans could buy their freedom or be freed by their owner
- The act of releasing an individual from slavery, usually by the slave owner.
- Manumission is the freeing of a slave or serf from indentured service.
- The freeing or emancipation of chattel slaves by their owners, which became more com mon in the upper South in the wake of so much talk during the American Revolution about human lib erty. ...
- (n): the act of freeing from bondage, setting free (manus + mittere).
