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manumission
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French manumission "freedom, emancipation," and directly from Latin manumissionem (nominative manumissio ) "freeing of a slave," noun of action from past participle stem of manumittere "to set free," from the phrase manu mittere "release ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manumission \Man`u*mis"sion\, n. [L. manumissio: cf. F. manumission. See Manumit .] The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage. ``Given to slaves at their manumission.'' --Arbuthnot.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Manumission was a series of parties held in Ibiza , in the Balearic Islands of Spain . The events were created by Mike and Claire Manumission (or McKay) along with Mike's brother Andy McKay .
Usage examples of manumission.
But practically, freedom was something only the well-to-do master could afford to bestow, especially since manumission carried a five percent tax.
I want a promise of manumission and I want the assurance that I will be paid for what I supply.
Carter seemed tentative, unwilling actually to see his slaves free, or uninterested in beginning the manumission until it was foolproof.
On the grassroots level, white Virginians in the 1790s increasingly treated the manumission of slaves like a civic sin.
Most of those we had purchased to staff the house in Colonia accepted their manumission gratefully, but I was surprised by how many of the older members of my household chose to remain.
Here their souls were moved toward manumission, the ordinary world distilled.
Salamander was slow as a gander, The mare could have beat him the length of the straight, And old Manumission was out of condition, And most of the others were running off weight.
General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded.
I am not selling slave manumission for information, I am not handing out any rewards for information!
I have a letter of manumission for each of you, with each of your names on it.
It had only been recently that he himself had been freed, and with his earnings had been able to purchase the manumission of his mother and father.
The carvers would live through the Exile, to the manumissions that Tomas had promised.
Of course the antislavery societies which, under various names, had existed in the South by hundreds were suddenly extinguished, and manumissions, which had been going on at the rate of thousands in a year, almost entirely ceased.
Carter only once, twenty pages away from the passage in the book devoted to manumissions in the upper South.
After five years of a kingdom-wide war, you know that his realms must be aswarm with veteran soldiers, and Zastros is offering them anything that he feels might tempt themamnesties and lands to nobles who fought against him, manumissions to escaped slaves, excellent wages to mercenaries, and mountains of loot for all.