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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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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...
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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...
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abolished in
Zanzibar and that all the
slaves be
manumitted except in the case of
concubines (
manumitted in 1909.). On his
death in 1902, he was succeeded...
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Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments—nullified the decision. The
Scotts were
manumitted by
private arrangement in May 1857. Dred
Scott died of
tuberculosis a...
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William Whipple,
signer of the
Declaration of Independence,
manumitted his slave,
believing that he
could not both
fight for
liberty and own slaves....
- Brodess,
indicated in his will that Rit and any of her
children would be
manumitted at age 45, and that any
children born
after she
reached age 45
would be...
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Justice Taney manumitted "most (but not all)" of his
slaves as
young man and was "deeply
committed to slavery"
throughout his life (Brady-Handy collection...
- 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...
