-
devoted servant after long
years of service. A
trusted bailiff might be
manumitted as a
gesture of gratitude. For
those working as
agricultural labourers...
- The
Manumit School was a
progressive Christian socialist boarding school located in Pawling, New York, from 1924 to 1943, and in Bristol, Pennsylvania...
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might ac****ulate a
large enough peculium to
justify their freedom, or be
manumitted for
services rendered.
Manumission had
become frequent enough that in...
-
daguerreotype was
taken in 1851. He was also the last
enslaved person to be
manumitted in New York.
Caesar was
supposedly born in 1737, on the
property of Rensselaer...
- her father's
second marriage). In 1948, Kahn was sent to the
progressive Manumit School, a
boarding school in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
During that time, her...
- and
bobwhite in the
wilds of the then-uncharted Everglades". He
attended Manumit School, a
Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, New York, during...
-
William Whipple,
signer of the
Declaration of Independence,
manumitted his slave,
believing that he
could not both
fight for
liberty and own slaves....
- only some of
whose owners were
willing to
manumit). In case of a
slave who was, e.g., one-half
manumitted, the
slave would serve in
alternating years...
- Hemings's children".
After Jefferson's
death in 1826,
although not
formally manumitted,
Sally Hemings was
allowed by Jefferson's
daughter Martha to live in Charlottesville...
-
almost fifty Cornish saints, the
Bodmin manumissions,
which is a list of
manumittors and slaves, the
latter with
mostly Cornish names, and, more substantially...
