For the dance music events in Ibiza, see Manumission (event).
"Manumit" redirects here. For the boarding school, see Manumit School.
Not to be confused with Manumation.
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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 time and place of a particular society. Historian Verene Shepherd states that the most widely used term is gratuitous manumission, "the conferment of freedom on the enslaved by enslavers before the end of the slave system".[1]
The motivations for manumission were complex and varied. Firstly, it may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture. One typical scenario was the freeing in the master's will of a devoted servant after long years of service. A trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude. For those working as agricultural labourers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed. In general, it was more common for older slaves to be given freedom.
Legislation under the early Roman Empire put limits on the number of slaves that could be freed in wills (lex Fufia Caninia, 2 BC), which suggests that it had been widely used. Freeing slaves could serve the pragmatic interests of the owner. The prospect of manumission worked as an incentive for slaves to be industrious and compliant. Roman slaves were paid a wage (peculium), which they could save up to buy themselves freedom. Manumission contracts found, in some abundance at Delphi (Greece), specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation.
^Shepherd, Verene (24 February 2008). "Freedom in the era of slavery: The case of the Barclay brothers in Jamaica". old.jamaica-gleaner.com. Jamaica Gleaner Online. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the...
peoples to pursue manumission; however, this manumission could be connoted in the boundaries of a closed slave system in which manumission does not equate...
former slaves granted freedom and rights through the legal process of manumission. The Roman practice of slavery utilized slaves for both production and...
The New York Manumission Society was an American organization founded in 1785 by U.S. Founding Father John Jay, among others, to promote the gradual abolition...
category of inscriptions are the manumission inscriptions, which reach roughly a number of 1300. In antiquity, manumission was the act of freeing slaves...
The Manumission Intelligencier was an abolitionist newspaper founded by Elihu Embree, a Quaker, in 1819. It was later renamed The Emancipator. In 1819...
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...
new features. According to Brockopp, the idea of using alms for the manumission of slaves who had converted to Islam appears to be unique to the Quran...
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president...
slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their owners), emancipation (granted freedom as part...
in Southern states, laws were changed to limit slavery and facilitate manumission. The amount of indentured servitude dropped dramatically throughout the...
Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with indigenous peoples...
a law passed under Augustus, the first Roman emperor, concerning the manumission of slaves. The law placed limits on the number of slaves that could be...
United States founders as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School...
before the magistratus, and stated the grounds (causa) of the intended manumission. "The lictor of the magistratus laid a rod (festuca) on the head of the...
The Bodmin manumissions are records included in a manuscript Gospel book, the Bodmin Gospels or St Petroc Gospels, British Library, Add MS 9381. The manuscript...
membership, as did the preachers' lessening of support for abolition and manumission of slavery, which had been part of the 18th-century teachings. Baptist...
privileges (marriage, inheritance, etc.) Possibility of social mobility (manumission or emancipation, access to citizen rights) Religious rights and obligations...
well-defined paths with protections under the law. The possibility of manumission and subsequent citizenship was a distinguishing feature of Rome's system...
1797, and in 1819, Elihu Embree of Jonesborough began publishing the Manumission Intelligencier (later The Emancipator), the nation's first exclusively...
1785, he joined his close associate John Jay in founding the New York Manumission Society, which successfully promoted the abolition of the international...
enslaved reached four million by the mid-19th century. Due in part to manumission efforts sparked by revolutionary ideals, Protestant preachers, and the...
slaveholders from making personal manumissions by deed or court filings; they had to seek permission for each manumission by both houses of the legislature...
price and attain freedom; i.e., as long as the owner was compensated, manumission was required. Owners could also voluntarily manumit their slaves, in...
counterparts, manumission for long-term good behavior or obedience upon the owner's death was much more likely. Thus, unpaid manumission was a much more...