manumit

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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

At an early period, it became an established rule of discipline for the Society to disown any member, who refused to manumit his bondmen.

From Isaac T. Hopper by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

"How was it possible that Mr. Royal neglected to manumit her?" inquired the young man.

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

At this period he tested the disposition of slaveholders to manumit their slaves.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

I have entreated him, for the sake of our unborn child, to manumit me, and he has promised to do it.

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