manumission
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Southern states banned voluntary manumissions and gradual abolition laws did not extend below Pennsylvania, but African Americans did not relax their struggles.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Fed by northern abolition laws, self-purchases, manumissions, and escapes, America’s free black community more than tripled in size, from 60,000 in 1790 to 186,000 in 1810.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
The transition in the Upper South to the staple crop of wheat, which did not require large numbers of enslaved laborers to produce, also spurred manumissions.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Private manumissions, by which slaveholders freed the enslaved, provided one pathway from bondage.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Many manumissions have been effected since January 1796, but no precise information is yet received to what number and under what circumstances.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
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