They both measure the same thing (temperature!), but use different numbers: Boiling water (at normal pressure) measures 100Â° in Celsius, but 212Â° in Fahrenheit.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and place of a society's slave system. The motivations of slave owners in manumitting slaves were complex and varied.
Even though manumission laws had been eased and a gradual emancipation bill had been passed, the New York Manumission Society continued its work in support of the cause of voluntary manumission. It tried to gain freedom for as many slaves as possible between 1785 and 1827.