indigenous
* indigenous basically just means people who originate in a place- natives.
Answer:
Slaves were able to obtain freedom from slavery at the will and whim of the slave owners. The word 'Manumission' is used to describe the act of a slave owner freeing their slaves. African-American slaves were sometimes able to arrange manumission by agreeing to "buying themselves" by paying the slave owner an agreed amount.
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