'manumit' is a real word that is used in written English.
It is a verb meaning “to free from slavery or other restraint” or “to emancipate”. For example, after decades of campaigning, the government finally manumitted all of the forced laborers in the country.
Although he owned slaves himself, Jay had an explanation for this seemingly contradictory practice: "I purchase slaves and manumit them at proper ages and when their faithful services shall have afforded a reasonable retribution".
In imperial times, they were accorded the power to manumit slaves, take legacies, and finally though this became general only in postclassical law to be instituted as an heir.
Learn more about the word "manumit" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary dictionary.
The word manumit has appeared in 109 New York Times articles since 1851, including on May 11 , 1997in the book review "That Old-Time Religion" by Charles B. Dew: In their quest for "the rebirth of the fallen soul" and "the regeneration of the corrupt heart," the early Baptist and Methodist ministers took aim at a wide variety of sins and sinners.
Methodist and many Baptist clergy opposed human bondage and at first called on believers to manumit their slaves.
The Townsend descendant added that he was "kind of proud that one of my ancestors was one of the first persons to manumit the slaves".
On May 13 , 1888 all Brazilian slaves were manumitted.
An obvious example is provided by the biblical law that Hebrew slaves were to be manumitted after six years (Exodus 21 2; Deuteronomy 15:15).
Many children of mixed ethnicity were manumitted (obtained their freedom), creating an intermediate stratum of free "people of colour" (persons of mixed ethnicity) and free ''blacks'' (manumitted slaves of African descent).
New Testament Christianity, on the other hand, had no prescriptions that slaves be manumitted.
By the 2nd century the city of Rome had attracted freeborn migrants from all over the empire; it housed, additionally, large numbers of manumitted slaves.
