1. to free (a slave) from bondage; to release from slavery
Usage: transitive verb; historical context

Examples

• The plantation owner agreed to manumit his slaves in his will.
• Many enslaved people were manumitted by their owners during the Revolutionary War era.
• The law allowed masters to manumit their servants after a period of service.
• She was manumitted at age twenty-one according to the terms of her master's estate.
• Abolitionists argued that all enslaved people should be manumitted immediately.