Meaning & use
manumission
The formal act of an enslaver freeing an enslaved person from bondage.
See it in a sentence
The document granted manumission to the enslaved man after twenty years of service.
Historians study manumission records to trace how some enslaved people gained freedom.
A note on using this word
Manumission refers specifically to an individual act of freeing, while emancipation often describes freeing on a larger, legal scale.
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Words with an opposite meaning
enslavement
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