The judicial order to manumit the complainants from their forced servitude was lauded as a true administration of justice. From LearnThat.org.
It is evident, that others cannot "manumit" for them. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
He could not in Alabama legally manumit his slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
Suppose the South should manumit their slaves, will the. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
If we must manumit our slaves, what country shall we send them to?. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
When they are mine, I'll formally manumit them and furnish her a dowry. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
Or an insolvent master might manumit his slaves to thwart his creditors. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
They were not required so far as we know, in any instance, to manumit their slaves. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
If our whole family economic situation had that base, would we manumit all our slaves?. From Wordnik.com. [The Business of May Next: James Madison & the Founding] Reference
But, as well might you, as to say, that it is the "purpose" of the abolitionists to "manumit.". From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Now that provision was made for the freedmen the slaveholder felt at liberty to manumit his slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Under Virginian colonial law, a slaveholder could manumit slaves by a special act of the legislature. From Wordnik.com. [Just shut the fuck up] Reference
I turn over to you all my rights in the nineteen Starr slaves with the understanding that you will manumit the lot. From Wordnik.com. [Legacy]
Our praetor-governor Nerva scurried off to Sicily and began to manumit the Italians, who number about a quarter of the total grain slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Finley held that colonization would gradually reduce slavery, because provision being made for the emancipated slaves, masters would manumit them. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
This is the correct answer. quell disavow manumit augment. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
If we manumit our slaves, what country shall we send them to?. From Wordnik.com. [Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of North-Carolina, Convened at] Reference
South, and buy a great many of these slaves, and manumit them?. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is] Reference
"Then promise me that you will instantly manumit your slaves.". From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a female slave,] Reference
When, then, will North Carolina voluntarily manumit her slaves?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen] Reference
Of persons unable to manumit, and the causes of their incapacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
The tendency to manumit faithful slaves called forth no approbation. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
"Under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held he could not manumit them.". From Wordnik.com. [From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services] Reference
At this period he tested the disposition of slaveholders to manumit their slaves. From Wordnik.com. [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference
But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens, with some restrictions. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The Apostle does not reprove me, nor require me to manumit Onesimus, but tells me that I now receive him. From Wordnik.com. [The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)] Reference
He explained to them his motives in calling them together, and offered to manumit them if they desired to be free. From Wordnik.com. [Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis,] Reference
Mobilization difficulties led the government to manumit hundreds of slaves and scores of convicts to fight at the front. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] Reference
The first step was to write to Mr. McCalmont to ascertain what were the lowest terms on which he would manumit his slave. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac T. Hopper] Reference
Being unable to manumit their loved ones, the black masters were forced to hold their kinsfolk and friends as nominal slaves. From Wordnik.com. Reference
From that moment he possessed authority to manumit not less absolute than the sovereign, but immeasurably more power to avenge. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference
So they treated their relatives and friends as free persons, and whenever possible, they attempted to manumit their loved ones. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The prime reason, I suspect, will be that we don't need any liberator to manumit our "corporate slaves" because we've never had any. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] Reference
When he had relinquished all hopes of finding her, he called on Isaac T. Hopper and offered to manumit her for four hundred dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac T. Hopper] Reference
At an early period, it became an established rule of discipline for the Society to disown any member, who refused to manumit his bondmen. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac T. Hopper] Reference
Possessed of more than one hundred slaves, Tucker resisted the appeals of relatives to manumit in his will even favored household servants. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] Reference
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