manumission
- n the formal act of freeing from slavery
he believed in the manumission of the slaves
- Despite his critical actions, Armistead had to petition the Virginia legislature for manumission.
- Too much has been made of the fact that manumission, the formal emancipation from slavery, was open to the most resourceful of them, that a few of the manumitted prospered and that .
- The Defense Attorney recalled the midnight ceremonies of India's manumission in New Delhi two months ago as extraordinarily touching, the action itself as one of history's rare .