manumitted
Released from bondage
Manumitted means freed from slavery.
The term appears in historical contexts describing the legal process by which enslaved people gained freedom, whether through purchase, owner's will, or legal decree: The plantation records show twelve slaves were manumitted upon the master's death.
The verb is manumit; the noun is manumission.
Released from confinement
- liberatedReleased from confinement
- unchainedFreed from restraints
- unshackledReleased from restraints
- releasedSet free from confinement
disenthralled · freedom papers · self-liberation · discharged · extricated · unfettered · redeemed · delivered
Ownership of people
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- chattelMovable personal property
servitude · indenture · proclamation · freedmen · fugitive · Quakers
Before a war's start
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
- 13th AmendmentConstitutional slavery prohibition
- Fugitive Slave ActLaw mandating escapee return
- Dred ScottAntebellum freedom-suit plaintiff
Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · plantation · slave codes · freedmen · maroons · Liberia
freed
Released from confinement
- liberatedReleased from confinement
- unchainedFreed from restraints
- unshackledReleased from restraints
released · disenthralled · freedom papers · self-liberation · discharged · extricated · unfettered · redeemed · delivered · freeborn
slavery
Ownership of people
- abolitionistOpponent of human bondage
- antislaveryOpposing human bondage
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
chattel · servitude · indenture · proclamation · freedmen · fugitive · Quakers
antebellum
Before a war's start
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
- 13th AmendmentConstitutional slavery prohibition
- Fugitive Slave ActLaw mandating escapee return
Dred Scott · Underground Railroad · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · plantation · slave codes · freedmen · maroons · Liberia · Sierra Leone
manumittedenslaved
Made someone's property
captive · indentured · unfree · bound · subjugated
admit, commit, permit, submit, emit, transmit, remit, emancipate, emancipation