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

So for the last 20 years, Haley has been scouring newspaper articles, census records, newspaper ads for runaway slaves, manumission deeds, coroner reports and other documents hoping to come across that missing piece.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2021

The question has lingered around the edges of the pop-culture ascendancy of Alexander Hamilton: Did the 10-dollar founding father, celebrated in the musical “Hamilton” as a “revolutionary manumission abolitionist,” actually own slaves?

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2020

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