Manumission Definition

Manumission Sentence Examples

• The Koran breathes a considerate and kindly spirit towards the class, and encourages manumission.

• A new process of manumission was now established, to be performed in the churches through the intervention of the ministers of religion; and it was provided that clerics could at any time by mere expression of will liberate their slaves.

• And as the legal manumission dissolved a son's previous agnatic relationships, so, too, the person baptized gave up father and mother, &c., and became one of a society of brethren the bond between whom was not physical but spiritual.

• During the reign of Coloman, moreover, the number of freemen was increased by the frequent manumission of serfs.

• The polygonal terrace wall at the back, on being cleared, proves to be covered with inscriptions, most of them concerning the manumission of slaves.