Manumission

n.

1.

The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.

Noun

1.

manumission - the formal act of freeing from slavery; "he believed in the manumission of the slaves"

MANUMISSION, contracts. The agreement by which the owner or master of a slave sets him free and at liberty; the written instrument which contains this agreement is also called a manumission.
     2. In the civil law it was different from emancipation, which, properly speaking, was applied to the liberation of children from paternal power. Inst. liv. 1, t. 5 & 12; Co. Litt. 137, a; Dane's Ab. h.t.

emancipate, freeing, liberation, manumit, release