manumission

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We ought to possess them in the manner we have inherited them from our ancestors, as their manumission is incompatible with the felicity of the country.

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  1. Liberation from slavery, bondage, or restraint; a setting free; emancipation. [To complete the usual legal ceremony of manumission in ancient Rome, the master turned the slave around and released him from his hand before a magistrate.] Then whereto serves it to have been enlarg'd With this free manumission of the mind? Daniel, Musophilus. Languages, by a regardless Adoption of some new Words, and Manumission of old, do often vary, yet the whole Bulk of the Speech keeps intire. Howell, Letters, iv. 19. Villeins might be enfranchised by manumission, which is either express or implied: express, as where a man granted to the villein a deed of manumission. Blackstone, Com., II. vi.

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  • The Kentucky legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and 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. —  A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • The Prophet made These reports of the Prophet's sayings her manumission (freedom given to a slave) and deeds are called Hadith. as her 'Mahr (wedding gift). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Even after generations of manumission, blacks have been plagued by overt racism, hate, suffered violence and aspersions by public figures of authority, anathematized and emotionally mentally, even physically garroted by whites who once used the Holy Bible as a defense for their practiced tyranny. —  Latest Articles
  • Those who were lawfully slaves remained slaves for life unless manumitted and the statute rather discouraged manumission, as it provided that the master on liberating a slave must give good and sufficient security that the freed man would not become a public charge. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
  • She clasped her hands over the tremendous possibilities it held for her--manumission from her bondage, wealth, fame, power. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
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  1. from French manumission = Spanish manumision = Portuguese manumissão = Italian manumissione, from Latin manumissio(n-), the freeing of a slave, from manumittere, past participle manumissus, free, manumit: see manumit.
 

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