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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Recent Examples of manumission
Successive volumes of the society’s manumission records are now held by the New-York Historical Society.
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Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Indeed, the society’s copies of manumission deeds helped to protect Black women and men against those crimes and other deceptions.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Some states required enslaved people who gained their freedom through manumission to leave the state.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
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
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Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Indeed, the society’s copies of manumission deeds helped to protect Black women and men against those crimes and other deceptions.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Some states required enslaved people who gained their freedom through manumission to leave the state.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manumission
Noun
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But as the nineteenth century plodded onward, abolitionists had developed increasingly persuasive arguments for emancipation, provoking slaveowners to answer with a vicious theory of Black inferiority to defend bondage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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After all, abstraction had been in the service of spiritual liberation and social emancipation since its inception, and had always appeared in opposition to the totally reified world of Duchamp’s readymade.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Many reenactors came to Omaha Beach at dawn Tuesday to mark the 79th anniversary of the assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control.—
Medianews Group,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2025
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When the Soviets liberated camps, there were no Western journalists, so there are no photos, no footage of the liberation of the camp.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
4 June 2025
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“Manumission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manumission. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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