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manumit

British pronunciation/mˈanjuːmˌɪt/
American pronunciation/mˈænjuːmˌɪt/
to manumit
[VERBE]
MAIN VERB
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affranchir

free from slavery or servitude
Synonymes : emancipate
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1And the story continues about if Leah or Elsie properly manumitted or not.
2In 1817 and 1818 Joseph Hornblower the abolitionist anti‑slavery man, who lived in Newark, manumitted his own slaves, Molly and Benjamin.
3In 1823, he and his siblings manumitted a slave, Sarah, identified as having been their father's slave.
4Was there anything else that corroborated this other than the word manumitted?
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