manumission
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9.9
- noun
- /ˌmæn.juˈmɪʃ.ən/
- Formal
:
manumisión
- The best the company could do was to set guidelines for manumission, the freeing of slaves.
- manumission of slaves
They were made into debt peons paying off half of the price of their manumission through their work.
- They were made into debt peons paying off half of the price of their manumission through their work.
Examples
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"Snowden concludes that manumissions were open to black slaves as much as to slaves of any other color."
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On the grassroots level, white Virginians in the 1790s increasingly treated the manumission of slaves like a civic sin.
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Stranger yet was the treatment of Carter's manumission within the enormous body of scholarship about early American history and slavery.
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All God's Children made a glancing reference to a slaveholder who had undertaken the largest private manumission in American history.
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Possibly, many resisted the manumission but were stunned into silence by its executor's wealth and power.
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At least in the case of Virginia, the restrictions that the state legislatures intended to impose on the process of manumission often failed to be implemented except as a result of conflicts among the white settlers themselves.
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At first, Carter seemed tentative, unwilling actually to see his slaves free, or uninterested in beginning the manumission until it was foolproof.
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By February 1792, however, the first freed slaves finally received their manumission certificates at the Westmoreland courthouse, and Carter seemed to like the prospect.
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Possibly, the white community was indifferent: the manumission was greeted with almost complete silence from local and national newspapers, except for a one-sentence note in the Virginia Gazette and a short commendation in the Baptist Register.
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The act of manumission in the 19th century allowed many slaves to live freely for the first time.
Synonyms
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1.8
An act of letting someone or something go free from being held
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6.7
The act of setting someone free from control or slavery
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Manumission comes from Latin parts manu- meaning 'hand' and -mission meaning 'send', seen in manual (about the hand) and mission (a 'sending'). So manumission is like a formal 'handing over' of freedom, the act of freeing someone from slavery.