manumission

Example Sentences

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The freeing of enslaved people through manumission was an expected practice in Rome, though the rate at which it occurred is difficult to assess.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Cascading from the table’s edge is a manumission document releasing a family named Moore from chattel slavery as burning incense and a nearby plate of water quietly consecrate the sober scene.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

But it further tightened protections for enslavers, limiting taxes on enslaved people and prohibiting manumission.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

They found a manumission deed dated April 10, 1804 that named Moses along with six other freed slaves.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2021

When Mrs. Garner passed, Caesar and his family mourned and tended to the farm, awaiting official word of their manumission.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead