manumit

Example Sentences

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If they were faithful and hardworking, the master would set them free, manumit them, when he died.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

By some unaccountable carelessness, he neglected to manumit her.

From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Mr. Darg testified of himself during the trial, that he never intended to manumit Thomas, and had made the promise merely as a means of obtaining his money.

From Isaac T. Hopper by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

When he had relinquished all hopes of finding her, he called on Isaac T. Hopper and offered to manumit her for four hundred dollars.

From Isaac T. Hopper by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Did it ever occur to her, that Northerners might go South, and buy a great many of these slaves, and manumit them?

From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)