Definitions:
manumission
Act of slave owner freeing slaves
Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing enslaved people by their enslavers.
Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular society. Historian Verne 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.
Notes: there are mortgage documents filed that mention manumissions filed with the mortgage companies. One if looking for any records may want to find the mortgage companies that were in business during the time frame within the state that your looking to research.
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