Word for the Day – 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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