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- noun Plural form of
manumission .
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Examples
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In response to some slaveholders who freed troublesome or debilitated blacks who then became burdens on the community, the legislature required the approval of a commission for any future manumissions.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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They formed a kind of parish register of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and manumissions.
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Thereupon Galba, by an edict, appointed a day when he would receive manumissions, and general rumor and talk beforehand about his purpose brought together a great crowd of men so ready for a change, that he scarcely appeared, stepping up to the tribunal, but they with one consent saluted him emperor.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The institution of a tax on manumissions in 353 (357) attests to a substantial number of slaves.
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Free African Americans had grown mainly from selective manumissions, interracial sexual relations in which the mother was white, and immigration.
On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-61 Jason Poole 1994
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United States, of such manumissions as have taken place; we do earnestly recommend, should you not already have entered into this regulation, that you make it hereafter an object of diligent attention.
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_ The society preserve a register -- and all manumissions are matter of record in the county courts.
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They are at the same time rapidly increasing from manumissions and from offspring, and of course lessening the general disproportion between the slaves and the whites.
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_ A register is kept by the society, manumissions are recorded in the court of Common Pleas.
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_ A register of manumissions kept by the acting committee.
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