Bodmin manumissions

Bodmin Manumissions are what happened in the town of Bodmin, in Cornwall, England, in 1746. Manumission is when an owner of a slave (a person owned by someone else) sets that person free. In this case, three local leaders in Bodmin made a law that any slave who lived in Bodmin for seven years would be given their freedom - this meant that their owner had to let them go, and the slave was no longer owned. It was a way of making sure people who were enslaved were given the chance to be free.