as in emancipation
the act of setting free from slavery
the official manumission of the slaves came after the Civil War
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Decades of research had focused on the ability of enslaved people to transcend their status through manumission, celebrating the fact that the buying and granting of freedom was much more common in Rome than in other slaveholding societies.
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New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
The jewels of the show are de Pareja’s manumission papers, with which Velázquez granted his freedom in 1650.
—Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
What are the consequences of manumission?
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
In place of the stark American two-caste system of free whites and enslaved blacks, Mr. Taylor seems to prefer the Spanish system of slavery that allowed for easier manumission and racial mixing with free blacks as mediators between masters and slaves.
—Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 28 May 2021
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New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
The jewels of the show are de Pareja’s manumission papers, with which Velázquez granted his freedom in 1650.
—Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
What are the consequences of manumission?
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
In place of the stark American two-caste system of free whites and enslaved blacks, Mr. Taylor seems to prefer the Spanish system of slavery that allowed for easier manumission and racial mixing with free blacks as mediators between masters and slaves.
—Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 28 May 2021
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