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Meritorious manumission was a legal act of freeing an enslaved African for good deeds as defined by the national public policy. Meritorious manumission could be granted to a enslaved African who distinguished himself by saving the life of the white master, inventing a new medicine or snitching on fellow slaves.
In this way, how do you use manumission in a sentence?
Sentence Examples
- A new process of manumission was now established, to be performed in the churches through the intervention of the ministers of religion; and it was provided that clerics could at any time by mere expression of will liberate their slaves.
- Manumission was of two kinds justa or regular, and minus justa.
In this regard, what was the purpose of the manumission law in Virginia?
Deed of Manumission for Francis Drake, May 23, 1791. In 1782, the Virginia General Assembly passed “An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves” that allowed slaveholders to free their slaves by their last wills and testaments or other writings that were to be proved in a county court by two witnesses.
It was this sense of open-mindedness that attracted brothers Andy and Mike McKay, founders of Manumission, to Ibiza back in the early 1990s. Until then the duo had been running a club in Manchester, back in the day when knife attacks and gang violence were common place in the local nightlife.