manumit
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Verb
manumitting, present participle; manumitted, past participle; manumits, 3rd person singular present; manumitted, past tense;
/ˌmanyəˈmit/,
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manumitting, present participle; manumitted, past participle; manumits, 3rd person singular present; manumitted, past tense;
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Release from slavery; set free
Web Definitions:
- free from slavery or servitude
- (manumission) the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"
- Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. In the United States before the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery, this often happened on the death of the owner, as a condition of their will.
- Manumission is the freeing of a slave or serf from indentured service.
- (manumission) A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave. (p. 505)
- (Manumission) The act by which a lord free a serf.
- (Manumission) 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. ...
- (Manumission) a formal written act to free slaves
- (Manumission) legal process (and related documents) by which enslaved Africans could buy their freedom or be freed by their owner