>>"Produce" is means neutral, but that had to be reserved for vegetables and fruit only - things which are grown, while the "handmake" had to be extended to "...or by machinery". Doesn't make sense, but then nobody even notices that manu- is there for "manually", "by hand", even though there are manuscripts, manumissions and manuals.
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>And Manumit which is about releasing people from slavery who had to labour by hand.

I wonder whether leg labourers - those turning pedals, perhaps, or those doing intellectual work - were included here, or there was a separate verb for them. We always used word "liberation" for release of slaves - no matter which history was it, Greek, Roman or American. And, frankly, I'm as stumped as you are as to why would there be any difference in the release - slavery is slavery is slavery, and there is pretty much a xor between whether one is a slave or not. Don't see any point of having diversity here.

>Or Manute Bol who uses his hands to bounce a basketball.
>Or Manure which I try to keep away from my hands.
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>Sorry. I missed your manumissions. But are all manumissions done by hand?

I guess some were done by a retrolateral kick... which is, in our slang, also mentioned as "kick ticket" (šut karta - 'shoot' from football/soccer, and 'karta' - a card, but from German Karte, a ticket, map, playing card). Applies to any situation when one is run out - fired, disowned, thrown out of a bar, a party or a train, and I guess when one is manumitted.