manumission

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The freeing of enslaved people through manumission was an expected practice in Rome, though the rate at which it occurred is difficult to assess.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Cascading from the table’s edge is a manumission document releasing a family named Moore from chattel slavery as burning incense and a nearby plate of water quietly consecrate the sober scene.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

But it further tightened protections for enslavers, limiting taxes on enslaved people and prohibiting manumission.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

So for the last 20 years, Haley has been scouring newspaper articles, census records, newspaper ads for runaway slaves, manumission deeds, coroner reports and other documents hoping to come across that missing piece.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2021

This whispering about freedom, about runaways, about manumission, went on every night, in windowless slave cabins all over the South.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry