How To Use manumit In A Sentence
- When the number of slaves becomes so great that the master can not profitably employ them, he manumits them in self-defense. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
- It even seemed possible that they could improve the conditions of slaves and persuade ever more planters to manumit their bondsmen.
- Gradually they have been manumitted; the slaves are free, women vote, young people have a childhood and a charter, the mentally unstable given a place, the disabled access.
- They manumitted them if they were children of slave women and deeded them property.
- Much as he had blamed Mr. Duncan for negligence in not manumitting her mother, he had fallen into the same snare. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
- Randolph, John, of Roanoke, on the coasting trade in slaves on depression in Virginia manumits his slaves American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
- It was possible for a person to be given a legacy on the understanding that he would manumit a slave.
- Each sailor or soldier is permitted to attach himself to one of the females: the permission and the caresses of the artful wanton have often lured the temporary parties to marry at Plymouth, more frequently to consummate the nuptials at Sydney: such a marriage manumits the convict. The History of Tasmania , Volume II
- To be manumitted, slaves required ‘free papers,’ even when masters failed to confer these promised documents, either through callousness, unexpected debt, or untimely death.
- If the idea occurs at all (with multitudes it never does) of claims which they have heard that God should make on the hours, it is dismissed with the thought that it really cannot signify to him how creatures, condemned by his appointment to toil all the rest of the week, may wish to spend this one day, on which the secular taskmaster manumits them, and He, the spiritual one, might surely do as much. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
