Manumission

How it is used

Distinguish individual manumission from abolition of slavery as an institution.

Example sentences

1. The deed records the manumission of a woman and her child.

   The act changes the status of identified individuals.

2. Manumission remained possible even while slavery continued in the city.

   Individual freedom does not imply the end of the wider institution.

Common collocations

• a deed of manumission
• grant manumission

Related terms

• slaveryA system in which people are legally owned by others, forced to work without pay and denied basic freedoms, or the condition of being enslaved.
• primary sourceEvidence created at the time being studied or by people who witnessed it, such as letters, diaries, official records, photographs or objects.

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