The mass manumission of black slaves in the past century is a giant step toward justice and equality. From LearnThat.org.
He believed in the manumission of the slaves. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I apprehend it means to bring forward manumission. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Why not make such legal manumission operative at once?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In 1787, Maryland passed an act legalizing manumission. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
Hence he wanted manumission put off as long as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
As to the manumission of the slaves you need not be uneasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
An account of Publilius 'manumission, and his contest with Laberius in. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
He did not receive his manumission papers until March 3, 1827, and when. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Assembly of Virginia then passed an act permitting the manumission of slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
It is impossible for us to be happy if, after manumission, they are to stay among us. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
As the work of manumission proceeded, the elements of slavery expansion were multiplied. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
He was taken and thrown into prison, but by producing his manumission papers was released. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Convention; and this year, Western Virginia has voted for manumission with great unanimity. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Purchases of this kind before 1806 were usually followed immediately by manumission of the slave. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
Lamb's time, after his manumission from India-House, seems to have hung rather heavily upon his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
It only sought to colonize on the West Coast of Africa all Negroes who could secure legal manumission. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
Sciold had a freedman who repaid his master's manumission of him by the ingratitude of attempting his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
There is no clause in this Constitution to secure it; for they may lay such tax as will amount to manumission. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
If this measure seems slow in securing total manumission and colonization, it would be progressive and certain. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
My manumission, as I shall call it; that is, the bill of sale conveying me to Mr. Smith, was dated Sept. 9th, 1835. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.] Reference
From the mode of representation and taxation, Congress cannot lay such a tax on slaves as will amount to manumission. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
I was in the barracks all evening — until my aunt came with my manumission; then I went straight to Ostia with her. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
At length the custom of manumission, and the diffusion of Christianity, ameliorated the condition of the Anglo-Saxon slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831] Reference
He contrived to have his manumission papers sewed up in his clothing prior to his departure on the flat boat for New Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
If you can't stand it there -- and I know you can't -- I will give you papers of manumission and money to take you to Richmond. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
States I induced him to give me a deed of manumission; but on our return to New Orleans he obtained it from me and destroyed it. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
He appointed a military commission, whose business it was to hear evidence and to issue personal deeds of the manumission of slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
A tax may be laid in the mean time; but it is limited, otherwise congress might lay such a tax on slaves as will amount to manumission. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The following letters to Tiro, with one from Quintus in regard to his manumission, are given here because of the difficulty of dating them. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Another reason with abolitionists in favor of immediate manumission, is, that the slaves do not, as a body, acquire, whilst in slavery, any. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Negroes and the Southampton massacre be discharged from the consideration of all petitions, memorials and resolutions, which had for their object the manumission of slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
A few months elapsed, and their master came for them, and tried to hire them to go back with him, promising to make over to them manumission papers as soon as they returned. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
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