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Definition of Manumit

Manumit
Manumit Man`u*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manumitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Manumitting.] [L. manumittere, manumissum; manus the hand + mittere to send, to send off. See Manual, and Missile.] To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave. ``Manumitted slaves.' --Hume.

Meaning of Manumit from wikipedia

- devoted servant after long years of service. A trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude. For those working as agricultural labourers...
- The Manumit School was a progressive Christian socialist boarding school located in Pawling, New York, from 1924 to 1943, and in Bristol, Pennsylvania...
- might ac****ulate a large enough peculium to justify their freedom, or be manumitted for services rendered. Manumission had become frequent enough that in...
- daguerreotype was taken in 1851. He was also the last enslaved person to be manumitted in New York. Caesar was supposedly born in 1737, on the property of Rensselaer...
- Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services...
- defeated and Rayhana was enslaved. Ibn Sa'd wrote that Rayhana went on to be manumitted and subsequently married to the prophet upon her conversion to Islam....
- effectively disfranchised freedmen as well as the propertied people of color manumitted before the war. Unable to vote, African Americans could not serve on juries...
- Hemings's children". After Jefferson's death in 1826, although not formally manumitted, Sally Hemings was allowed by Jefferson's daughter Martha to live in Charlottesville...
- brought to the Bahamas from outside the British West Indies would be manumitted." This led to a total of nearly 300 enslaved people owned by US nationals...
- Stagnation to Transformation: A 21 Day Coaching Actuation Designed to Manumit PURPOSE. Clifton Pettyjohn. ISBN 9781520906850. Wrangham, Richard (2003)...