Word of the Day – Manumission

  • Noun: Manumission
    1. the act or process of manumitting especially : formal emancipation from slavery
  • Synonyms:
    1.  emancipation
    2. enfranchisement
    3. freeing
    4. liberation
  • Usage:
    1. “Thorby’s leg hurt for a couple days; otherwise manumission left his life unchanged.”
  • Encountered:
    1. While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy.

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Word for the Day – Manumission

manumission

  •  Noun: Manumission
    1. the act or process of manumitting; especially : formal emancipation from slavery
  • Synonyms:
    1. emancipation
    2. liberation
    3. release
    4. rescue
  • Usage:

“However, especially after 1800, most manumissions involved select slaves, and they were often the mixed-race relatives, in one way or another , of the master.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Colors Matters edited by Kimberly Jade Norwood

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