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Definition of Manumission
1. Noun. The formal act of freeing from slavery. "He believed in the manumission of the slaves"
Definition of Manumission
1. n. The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.
Definition of Manumission
1. Noun. release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manumission
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumission
Literary usage of Manumission
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"If the manumission was completely regular, the freedman became at once a Roman
citizen; an informal manumission (if valid) made the slave only a Latin. 2. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The modes of manumission above described were of a formal and public ... 1, 13):
this manumission was carried out before the bishop in the presence of the ..."
3. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by William Gardiner Hammond (1876)
"manumission was something move than the disposal of a piece of property ; it was'
the creation of a citizen, and thus might consistently be denied to minors ..."
4. History of the Public School Society of the City of New York: With Portraits by William Oland Bourne (1870)
"SCHOOLS FOR COLORED CHILDREN, The manumission Society Organized—Objects and
Measures—School for Colored Children Proposed—Committee ..."
5. Digest of the United States Supreme Court Reports. U.S. Vols. 1-206. L. Ed by Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court, United States (1908)
"manumission or emancipation by master. Power of Executor to Recall manumission
Directed by Will, see Executors and .Administrators, 213. ..."
6. The Negro in Maryland: A Study of the Institution of Slavery by Jeffrey Richardson Brackett (1889)
"manumission. For a hundred years and more after the settlement of Maryland, there
were no regulations by law for the manumission of slaves ..."
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