| There were two main ways in which manumission, or enfranchisement as it was more commonly known in the Spanish colonies, could be achieved. |
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| This provision gave slaves an incentive to work as well as the hope of eventual manumission. |
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| A serf could become a freedman only through manumission, enfranchisement, or escape. |
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| Muscovy in 1597 prevented self-sale into slavery from becoming hereditary by mandating manumission of such slaves on their owners' deaths. |
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| Following the Revolution, the three legislatures made manumission easier, allowed by deed or will. |
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| Birth was occasionally a route to manumission. |
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| To commemorate that date an exhibition of documents, including testimony of both the process of slavery and its subsequent manumission, was organized at the headquarters of the National Archives. |
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| Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation. |
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| Mulattoes also had a higher incidence of manumission, most likely because of the likelihood that they were the children of a slave and an owner. |
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| However, women often fared better in manumission possibilities. |
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| The more innocent dreamed of a manumission kindly bestowed by the new Emperor as one of a number of acts of justice and clemency proper to a new reign. |
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| As for Ibiza, Dowse is clearly a hoser who is more at home in a hockey arena than at Manumission. |
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| Clubs like Sundissential and Manumission became household names with British, German and Italian tourists. |
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| Manumission of a slave was encouraged as a way of expiating sins. |
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