manumission

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

From Washington Post

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

The question has lingered around the edges of the pop-culture ascendancy of Alexander Hamilton: Did the 10-dollar founding father, celebrated in the musical “Hamilton” as a “revolutionary manumission abolitionist,” actually own slaves?

From New York Times

“It was a copy of, I think, her great great grandfather’s manumission papers.”

From Los Angeles Times

As a stream on the screen, it allows replays, and that means the chance to double-check Miranda’s polysyllabic wizardry: “A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists/Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is.”

From New York Times