Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a legal formality for acquiring title to property, whether by actual or by simulated purchase.
- noun The act of mancipating or enslaving; slavery; involuntary servitude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Slavery; involuntary servitude.
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- noun obsolete
slavery
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Examples
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Before 'mancipation my mammy and daddy owned by the very same old fellar, Thomas Henry McNeil.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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De day de mancipation wuz read dey wuz sadness an 'gladness.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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I don't know how my uncle got to Helena but he was turned loose down in this country at 'mancipation.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration
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After 'mancipation papa stop calling himself Jacob Baldwin and called himself Jacob Brown in his own pa's name.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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Joe Heywood wuz Joe Belin -- he was Parson Belin man -- he take the Heywood title after mancipation.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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They fed the colored folks till little after 'mancipation.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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More recently a third kind was introduced, called the will by bronze and balance, because it was made by mancipation, which was a sort of fictitious sale, in the presence of five witnesses and a balance holder, all Roman citizens above the age of puberty, together with the person who was called the purchaser of the family.
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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Well, 'mancipation came; we all know; can't stop to go troo de hull.
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Well, 'mancipation came; we all know; can't stop to go troo de hull.
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The parts of jurisprudence which he looked upon with affection were exactly those which a modern theorist leaves out of consideration as accidental and transitory; the solemn gestures of the mancipation; the nicely adjusted questions and answers of the verbal contract; the endless formalities of pleading and procedure.
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855
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