Sentence examples for manumission from inspiring English sources
noun
Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.
Birth was occasionally a route to manumission.
Although he was a Southerner, Mason castigated the trade as "disgraceful to mankind"; he favoured manumission and education for bondsmen and supported a system of free labour.
This provision gave slaves an incentive to work as well as the hope of eventual manumission.
The factors of institutional dynamism, expansionism, and profitability, as well as race (see below), may have been the most crucial variants for the South, where manumission was even forbidden in South Carolina in 1820, Mississippi in 1822, Arkansas in 1858, and Maryland and Alabama in 1860; other factors were at work in the ancient Middle East and Muscovy.
A serf could become a freedman only through manumission, enfranchisement, or escape.
In Neo-Babylonia, in Late and Middle Assyria, and in Muscovy manumission was easy but rare; in the American South manumission was comparatively difficult and almost never happened after the prohibition on importing new slaves.
Muscovy in 1597 prevented self-sale into slavery from becoming hereditary by mandating manumission of such slaves on their owners' deaths.
And Jay did more than get the New York Manumission Society off the ground.
Mr Lord gets warmer when he notes Alexander Hamilton's role in the New York Manumission Society.
(He was active in the Manumission Society).
There he continued to press for a cause that would prove to be one of his lifelong passions manumission, in this case as a reward for slaves' service in the Continental Army.
