31 May 2017
manumit
[man-yuh-mit]
verb (used with object), manumitted, manumitting.
1. to release from slavery or servitude.
Origin of manumit
late Middle English Latin
1375-1425; late Middle English < Latin manūmittere, earlier manū ēmittere to send away from (one’s) hand, i.e., to set free. See manus, emit
Related forms
manumitter, noun
unmanumitted, adjective
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Examples from the Web for manumit
Historical Examples
We think, if any manumit, before we license them to part, they do usurp a power is ours by nature.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 (of 15)
Robert Dodsley
Even baptism did not manumit him unless the owner were a Moor or a Jew.
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1
Henry Charles Lea
Suppose the South should manumit their slaves, will the North receive and educate them?
A Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A. Woodward
Anagram
a tin mum
Today’s quote
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
– Timothy Leary
On this day
31 May 1921 – 1 June 1921 – The Tulsa Race Riots in which a large group of white people attacked the black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including aerial attacks that dropped bombs and fired on the community. It resulted in the Greenwood District, also known as the ‘Black Wall Street’ being burned to the ground. The Greenwood District was the wealthiest black community in the USA at the time.More than 800 people were admitted to white hospitals after two hospitals in the black community were burned down. Police arrested or detained more than 6,000 black residents. More than 10,000 were left homeless and 35 city blocks comprising of 1,256 destroyed. Official figures state that 39 people were killed, however, other sources estimate that between 55 and 300 black residents were killed with 9 white people killed. The riots were precipitated when a black man was suspected of raping a white girl in an elevator. White residents gathered with rumours of a lynching to happen. As the whites descended on Greenwood, a group of black men assembled to confront them. During this, some of the whites began torching buildings
31 May 1930 – birth of Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer and politician.
31 May 1948 – birth of John Bonham, Led Zeppelin drummer. Died 25 September 1980.
31 May 1965 – birth of Brooke Shields, American actor, model and producer.
31 May 1996 – death of Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author. Leary was a major proponent of the use of pscyhedelic drugs, particularly LSD and psilocybin (mushrooms). He conducted numerous psychiatric experiments using psychedelics, particularly during the 1950s and and 1960s, when the drugs were legal. LSD was banned by the USA in 1966. Leary popularised 1960’s catch-phrases such as ‘turn on, tune in and drop out’, ‘set and setting’, and ‘think for yourself and question authority’. He was friends with beat generation poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Leary was arrested numerous times over his possession and use of drugs. He wrote a number of books on the benefits of psychedelic drugs. Leary became fascinated with computers, declaring that ‘the PC is the LSD of the 1990s’. He encouraged bohemians to ‘turn on, boot up, jack in’. Leary was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1995. He chose to stream his dying moments over the internet. Seven grams of Leary’s ashes were placed aboard a Pegasus rocket, launched on 21 April 1997. It remained in orbit around the Earth for six years until it burned up in atmosphere. Born 22 October 1920.