Tag: 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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•  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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