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manumitter

n. An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.

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manumitter

n. someone who frees others from bondage; "Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator" [syn: emancipator]

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In addition to this new law, and the consul's edict enforcing it, a resolution was passed by the senate ordering that whenever any one of them was manumitted and publicly declared to be free, the dictator, consul, interrex, censor or praetor for the time being should put the manumitter on his oath that he was not doing it for the purpose of altering his citizenship.