different between manumission vs enfranchisement

English

Etymology

From the past participle stem of Latin man?mitt? (English manumit).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mænj??m???n/

Noun

manumission (countable and uncountable, plural manumissions)

1. Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.
   • 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, ch. 4:

     The manumission of the slaves in New York has been gradual.

   • 1881, Grant Allen, Anglo-Saxon Britain, ch. 19:

     In the west, and especially in Cornwall, the names of the serfs were mainly Celtic,—Griffith, Modred, Riol, and so forth,—as may be seen from the list of manumissions preserved in a mass-book at St. Petroc's, or Padstow.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     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.

   • 2012 Nov. 30, Paul Finkelman, "The Real Thomas Jefferson: The Monster of Monticello," New York Times (retrieved 3 Aug 2015):

     Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation.

Synonyms

• emancipation, liberation

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

enfranchise +? -ment

Noun

enfranchisement (countable and uncountable, plural enfranchisements)

1. The act of enfranchising
2. A release from slavery
3. The investiture with any of several municipal privileges
4. (Britain, law) conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold

   enfranchisement of copyhold