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Definition of Manumissions
1. manumission [n] - See also: manumission
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumissions
Literary usage of Manumissions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1955)
"There are very few cases of repeated manumissions made by the same person.66 The
conclusion that about three slaves would cover the average number owned by ..."
2. Annual Report of the American Colonization Society by American Colonization Society (1828)
"manumissions. Among the most promising and encouraging circumstances ...
These manumissions have occurred on a scale that the most sanguine friends of the ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... of ^90 t '^ currency on manumissions, in 1784, the odious innovation was so/
unpopular, the assembly report, that it was never carried into execution, ..."
4. The Anti-slavery Reporter by British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (1827)
"8s., 176 manumissions have taken place, in a population of 9500 slaves. At the
same rate, the manumissions in Barbadoes and Demerara would have been about ..."
5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"... of testamentary manumissions within certain limits. It was repealed by Whether
an act constitutes an actionable wrong in England which is tortious by ..."
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