as in emancipation
the act of setting free from slavery
the official manumission of the slaves came after the Civil War
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Recent Examples of manumission
Successive volumes of the society’s manumission records are now held by the New-York Historical Society.
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Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Indeed, the society’s copies of manumission deeds helped to protect Black women and men against those crimes and other deceptions.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Some states required enslaved people who gained their freedom through manumission to leave the state.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
The jewels of the show are de Pareja’s manumission papers, with which Velázquez granted his freedom in 1650.
—Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
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Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Indeed, the society’s copies of manumission deeds helped to protect Black women and men against those crimes and other deceptions.
—Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
Some states required enslaved people who gained their freedom through manumission to leave the state.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
The jewels of the show are de Pareja’s manumission papers, with which Velázquez granted his freedom in 1650.
—Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manumission
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In 1879, politician Robert Evans introduced a bill to celebrate Black emancipation, but the bill did not garner enough support during the Jim Crow era, Collins said.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
19 June 2025
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Unless the North pursued emancipation, Cobden said his countrymen would support the South.—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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References to trans people disappeared around the same time from the website for the Stonewall National Monument, considered the birthplace of gay liberation, in a move that sparked particular outcry.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
28 June 2025
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Fleeing from their oppressive lives, our heroes, played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, take the standard trajectory of liberation embodied by the macho road movie and give it a feminist kick.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
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“Manumission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manumission. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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