Sentences with manumit
man·u·mit
M m - Following the gradualist laws and conditional manumissions-which delayed freedom well until adulthood-many manumitters required their slaves to agree to long-term indentureships as part of the price of freedom, thereby reviving an older system of subordination and providing masters with a profitable exit from slave ownership.
- 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.
- In this period, fewer than 40 percent of manumitters freed all their slaves.
- They manumitted them if they were children of slave women and deeded them property.
- To be manumitted, slaves required ‘free papers,’ even when masters failed to confer these promised documents, either through callousness, unexpected debt, or untimely death.
- In response, members of the Georgia and South Carolina Congressional delegations intimated that if Congress attempted to manumit slaves, their states would leave the Union.
- It even seemed possible that they could improve the conditions of slaves and persuade ever more planters to manumit their bondsmen.