Verb
The word is derived from manumit
of Manumit
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlso in the postwar years, individual slaveholders, particularly in the Upper South, manumitted slaves, sometimes in their wills. Source: Internet
An owner who manumitted a slave paid a "freedom tax", calculated at 5 percent of value. Source: Internet
Customarily a newly enfranchised citizen would adopt the praenomen and nomen of his patron; that is, the person who had adopted or manumitted him, or otherwise procured his citizenship. Source: Internet
Although they received £72,940 from the British Government in compensation, this was only a fraction of the true economic value of the manumitted slaves. Source: Internet
Lettsome manumitted 1,000 slaves upon inheriting them. Source: Internet
Talented slaves with a knack for business might accumulate a large enough peculium to justify their freedom, or be manumitted for services rendered. Source: Internet