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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.