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AFFRANCHISEMENT - Manumission, or affranchisement, is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and plac...
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Preparation of main French feast representing liberation |
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Dec 2 2001 The Times - Cryptic |
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The act of freeing enfranchisement. |
The action or practice of setting free a person or group of people liberation, emancipation. |
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Manumission, or affranchisement, is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular society. Jamaican 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".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 laborers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed. * Such feelings of benevolence may have been of value to slave owners themselves as it allowed them to focus on a "humane component" in the human traffic of slavery. In general, it was more common for older slaves to be giv |