Manumission

/mˌænjuːmˈɪʃən/

/ˌmɑnuˈmɪʃən/

[noun]

Manumission

[NOUN]

the formal act of freeing from slavery

Examples

1. And yet manumissions continue.

2. So in before manumission, the vast majority of American wealth was in people who were claimed as slaves by people who had enslaved them.

3. Alexander Hamilton is one of the founders of the New York manumission society which is instrumental in turning New York from a slave state to a free state.

4. They were made into debt peons, paying off half of the price of their manumission through their work.