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Line 6: [[File:Carta de liberdade, por Antônio Joaquim de Souza Costa ao escravo Geraldo, Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo.pdf\|thumb\|Letter where one can read that the slave Geraldo will be free with the condition of working for another 6 years (Brazil). [[Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo\|Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo\|APESP]]]] '''Manumission''', or '''enfranchisement''', is the act of freeing [[slaves]] by their ~~owners~~enslavers. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular society. Historian [[Verene Shepherd]] states that the most widely used term is gratuitous manumission, "the conferment of freedom on the enslaved by enslavers before the end of the slave system".<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Shepherd \|first=Verene \|date=24 February 2008 \|title=Freedom in the era of slavery: The case of the Barclay brothers in Jamaica \|work=old.jamaica-gleaner.com \|publisher=Jamaica Gleaner Online \|url=http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080224/news/news3.html \|access-date=15 January 2018}}</ref> The motivations for manumission were complex and varied. Firstly, it may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture. One typical scenario was the freeing in the master's [[will (law)\|will]] of a devoted servant after long years of service. A trusted [[bailiff]] might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude. For those working as agricultural labourers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed. In general, it was more common for older slaves to be given freedom.

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