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Recent Examples of manumission Successive volumes of the society’s manumission records are now held by the New-York Historical Society. Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024 Indeed, the society’s copies of manumission deeds helped to protect Black women and men against those crimes and other deceptions. Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024 Some states required enslaved people who gained their freedom through manumission to leave the state. Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024 The jewels of the show are de Pareja’s manumission papers, with which Velázquez granted his freedom in 1650. Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 11 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for manumission
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Noun
  • The drama follows a woman born into modest circumstances in Sicily in 1900, who goes on to navigate life in a convent, and then carves herself out a place in aristocratic household achieving happiness and emancipation in the process.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 May 2025
  • The story of Freedman's Village connects Arlington to the national history of slavery and emancipation.
    Doug Melville, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many reenactors came to Omaha Beach at dawn Tuesday to mark the 79th anniversary of the assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control.
    Medianews Group, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025
  • When the Soviets liberated camps, there were no Western journalists, so there are no photos, no footage of the liberation of the camp.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 4 June 2025

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