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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for manumission
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Noun
  • Lawler: Long before Lord Dunmore promised emancipation to those enslaved, those in bondage already were fleeing to British lines.
    Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • But Brendle took it on as a vehicle to tell a more global story of female emancipation, empowerment, and rights.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But even when locked in a tense, deadly standoff with the vicious Barbie, Moulin doesn’t break, and his courage and silence helps lead to the liberation of France, while leaving behind a new spirit of strength and resistance.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 10 May 2025
  • The Queen's most recent appearance before her latest hospitalization was at a May 4 peace service at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen for the 80th anniversary of Denmark’s liberation.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 8 May 2025

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