manumission

(noun)

release from slavery, freedom, the act of manumitting

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Examples of manumission in the following topics:

  • Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement

    • These included the banning of slavery in the territories, and manumission campaigns encouraging individual owners to free slaves.
    • Manumission campaigns in the Upper South were also successful in increasing the number of free people of color in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware where, by 1810, three-quarters of Black people in Delaware were free.