Manumission is valid Scrabble Word

Is manumission a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for MANUMISSION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of manumitting; freeing from slavery
release from slavery
The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.
the formal act of freeing from slavery

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the act or process of manumitting; formal emancipation from slavery

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How to use MANUMISSION in a sentence

These are the men who, by dint of hard work and thrifty habits, accumulate sufficient eventually to obtain manumission.
In the southern parts of America manumission was not permitted but on terms amounting nearly to a prohibition.
The laws of Georgia restrained humane impulses by forbidding the manumission of a slave.
I sent again and again for papers of manumission, but they never came.
If one considers the proportion of this to the number brought there for manumission this seems hardly true.
This was especially true after 1832 when the colored people had qualified themselves to take over the schools of the New York Manumission Society.
Dennis Comstock, who, as I have said, was president of the Manumission Society.
Had manumission been held in check or in some way superintended by the State, there would have been more good than harm in it.
From the mode of representation and taxation, Congress cannot lay such a tax on slaves as will amount to manumission.
He brought one hundred silver dollars, and Perry Boots signed a receipt for it, accompanied by a deed of manumission.

Hopper drew up a deed of manumission, in which the purchaser requested him to insert that Zeke was now commonly called Samuel Johnson.
But being a slave himself, he said it was impossible for him to go in search of them, unless his own manumission could be obtained.
With these he carefully packed his deed of manumission, and set forth on his errand of paternal love.
The sum was accepted, and the parties applied to Daniel Bussier, a magistrate in the District of Southwark, to draw up a deed of manumission.
She was taken to the office of Daniel Bussier, and notwithstanding he had witnessed her deed of manumission a few months before, he committed her to prison as a fugitive slave.
In the first place, they greatly desired to secure the manumission of the slave.
Instead of giving the deed of manumission, which had been his own voluntary offer at the outset, and which he knew had been the impelling motive to exertion, Mr.
An act of 1702 discouraged manumission by ordering that if any freed negroes should come to want, their former owners were to be held responsible for their maintenance.
The charters of manumission, granted in the early times of christianity, founded on an apprehension of duty to God.
But this is just what the manumission of the black people of this country has accomplished.
He appointed new rules and limits to the manumission of slaves, and was himself very strict in the observance of them.
The result of this act of manumission was, that in judging Justine he could no longer allow for what was purely feminine in her conduct.
That all doubts might be removed, thirty clerks were set to work on the spot to draw up charters of manumission, and banners were presented to each county.
When the serfs had been set at liberty by manumission, the socage-tenants or free-tenants, as they were called, were still bound by their fixed agreements of tenure.
The humanity of good Pagan emperors softened the harshness of the laws of bondage, and manumission had always been extremely common amongst the Romans.
Thus manumission is a bribe to make hypocritical converts, and Christian superiority a plea for depriving men of their dearest rights.
Sometimes, however, a gradual emancipation act was later followed by one for immediate manumission, as in New York in 1817.
They are the serfs of the stage, who never obtain manumission.
He provided by his will for the manumission of his slaves, to take effect on the decease of his widow.
Price, however, left behind him letters of manumission for Mr.
The slave was bound to show manumission under which he had acquired his freedom, by the common law of every colony.

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