manumission

How To Use manumission In A Sentence

• As for Ibiza, Dowse is clearly a hoser who is more at home in a hockey arena than at Manumission.
• a leading advocate of manumission
• manumission documents from the Slavery Chancellery
• If we look closely at Equiano's account of his manumission this link between feminization and commodification is already operative. The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
• There were two main ways in which manumission, or enfranchisement as it was more commonly known in the Spanish colonies, could be achieved.
• Manumission is the giving of freedom; for while a man is in slavery he is subject to the power once known as 'manus'; and from that power he is set free by manumission. The Institutes of Justinian
• To a soundtrack created by the whales themselves—via Roger Payne's groundbreaking and album-charting recording of the plaintive song of the humpback whale—we moved slowly towards cetacean manumission.
• Each, perhaps, a new mate in eye, and rejoicing secretly in the manumission, could afford to be complaisantly sorrowful in appearance. Clarissa Harlowe
• he believed in the manumission of the slaves
• negotiated manumissions of slaves by their masters