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

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

While this was sometimes done while the master still lived, manumission of slaves was more commonly a feature of wills.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson