manumit

It was possible for a person to be given a legacy on the understanding that he would manumit a slave.

There, if you have served me faithfully, I will manumit you.

Under Georgia law, neither the bishop nor his spouse can manumit the slaves.

In addition, they encouraged slaveholders to manumit their slaves.

Methodists and Quakers especially worked to convince slaveholders to manumit slaves.

The each decided to manumit their slaves and move to the Northwest Territory, where slavery was outlawed.

To this end, he refused to manumit his slave woman, even though it cost him his membership in the Quaker meeting.

A trust is imposed on the heirs that they should manumit four slaves when the testator's children reach puberty.

Napoleon refused to manumit the Russian serfs because of concerns this might provoke a reaction in his army's rear.

She believed that slaveholders were "anxious to manumit their people, but apprehensive of throwing them unprepared into the world."

A person under the age of twenty could only manumit a slave if he went through the ordinary legal proceeding (consilium).

Methodist and many Baptist clergy opposed human bondage and at first called on believers to manumit their slaves.

If the master does not have sufficient wealth to facilitate this, she or he must either sell, hire out, or manumit the slave as ordered.

'We're about to manumit her,' Paul said, and with slow, patient force Susan walked to the desk.

Furthermore, the lords of many manors were willing (for payment) to manumit ("release") their serfs.

On embracing Islam, it was encouraged to manumit slave women or bring them into formal marriage (Nikah).

Cudjo, to manumit Eden.

In the first two decades after the war, the legislatures of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware made it easier for slaveholders to manumit their slaves.

The Church suspended Bishop James Osgood Andrew because he refused to manumit his slaves.

And because a thing returns easily to its nature, learn that we, moved by piety . . . freely manumit our serf.'

In 1808 many North Carolinians were using trusts as a way to manumit slaves without breaking North Carolina's restrictive laws.

The Townsend descendant added that he was "kind of proud that one of my ancestors was one of the first persons to manumit the slaves."

Our praetor-governor Nerva scurried off to Sicily and began to manumit the Italians, who number about a quarter of the total grain slaves.

One of Emperor Gao's first acts was to manumit agricultural workers enslaved during the Warring States period, although domestic servants retained their status.

They even owned slaves and plantations, but some of them, particularly during the Spanish colonial era, were relatives that the placées wished to manumit at a later date.