noun
- the act of freeing a slave
Usage: historical
Examples
- The plantation owner granted manumission to several slaves in his will.
- Manumission was a legal process that required official documentation.
- Some slaves purchased their own manumission with money they had saved.
- The Roman practice of manumission allowed slaves to become citizens.
- After manumission, former slaves faced new challenges in society.
- Legal manumission differed from simply running away to freedom.