manumission

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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

As a stream on the screen, it allows replays, and that means the chance to double-check Miranda’s polysyllabic wizardry: “A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists/Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is.”

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2020

This whispering about freedom, about runaways, about manumission, went on every night, in windowless slave cabins all over the South.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry