Meaning & use
Manumit
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to formally release someone from slavery or servitude
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The plantation owner's will manumitted several of the enslaved people upon his death.
Historians study the legal process by which slaveholders could manumit those they held in bondage.
A note on using this word
From Latin 'manumittere,' literally 'to send from the hand,' referring to the ancient Roman ceremony of freeing a slave.
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enslave
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