"Manumission" was
A. a slaveowner's ability to free his slaves.
B. the use of white laborers alongside slaves in the same task.
C. a slaveowner's ability to sell or trade his slaves.
D. the death of a slave at the hands of a master.
E. a slaveowner's ability to claim illegitimate slave children as his own.
Answer: A
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