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    Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the...
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  • Manumission was a series of parties held in Ibiza, in the Balearic Islands of Spain. The events were created by Mike, Andy Manumission (or Mckay) and Dawn...
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    peoples to pursue manumission; however, this manumission could be connoted in the boundaries of a closed slave system in which manumission does not equate...
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    former slaves granted freedom and rights through the legal process of manumission. The Roman practice of slavery utilized slaves for both production and...
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  • category of inscriptions are the manumission inscriptions, which reach roughly a number of 1300. In antiquity, manumission was the act of freeing slaves...
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  • The Manumission Intelligencier was an abolitionist newspaper founded by Elihu Embree, a Quaker, in 1819. It was later renamed The Emancipator. In 1819...
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  • The New York Manumission Society was founded in 1785. The term "manumission" is from the Latin meaning "a hand lets go," inferring the idea of freeing...
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    In Islamic law, a mukataba (مكاتبة) is a contract of manumission between a master and a slave according to which the slave is required to pay a certain...
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    George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was a Founding Father of the United States, military officer, and farmer who served as the first...
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    slave escaped and applied for manumission in one of its Political Agencies, they were eligible to receive a manumission certificate. Granting such certificates...
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