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See: emancipation, liberation, release, suffrage

MANUMISSION, contracts. The agreement by which the owner or master of a slave sets him free and at liberty; the written instrument which contains this agreement is also called a manumission.
     2. In the civil law it was different from emancipation, which, properly speaking, was applied to the liberation of children from paternal power. Inst. liv. 1, t. 5 & 12; Co. Litt. 137, a; Dane's Ab. h.t.
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The topics include metropolitan Spain and the Canaries in the 15th and 16th centuries, the limits of manumission for enslaved Africans in 18th-century British West Indian sugar society, sex and gender in Surinamese manumissions, the struggle of liberated Africans for final emancipation in Brazil from the 1840s to the 1860s, and the slave owner's family and manumission in the post-revolutionary Chesapeake tidewater.
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