manumit

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The slaveholders themselves are to "manumit."

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  1. transitive verb To free from slavery or bondage; emancipate.

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  • This is the correct answer. quell disavow manumit augment —  LearnHub Activities
  • Being unable to manumit their loved ones, the black masters were forced to hold their kinsfolk and friends as nominal slaves.
  • So they treated their relatives and friends as free persons, and whenever possible, they attempted to manumit their loved ones.
  • I felt that I owed my life to her faithful care, and I resolved to take her North, manumit, educate, and marry her. —  Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted
  • The slaveholders themselves are to "manumit." —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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  1. Middle English manumitten, from Old French manumitter, from Latin manūmittere : manū, ablative of manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots + mittere, to send from.

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  1. = Old French manumetre, manumettre, manumiter = Spanish manumitir = Italian manomettere, manumettere, from Latin manumittere, release from one's power, set at liberty, free, enfranchise, from manus, hand, power, + mittere, send: see mission.
 

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