Manumission definition

Manumission

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WordNet

noun

(1) The formal act of freeing from slavery

"He believed in the manumission of the slaves"

WiktionaryText

Noun

release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting
- 1985: The more innocent dreamed of a manumission kindly bestowed by the new Emperor as one of a number of acts of justice and clemency proper to a new reign. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

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