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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
manumit .
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April 8, 2010, 2: 57 pm midasear says: subpatre: Few if any other nations manumitted quickly, but they all managed to end slavery without war.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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Few if any other nations manumitted quickly, but they all managed to end slavery without war.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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If a slave born in the United States be manumitted, or otherwise lawfully discharged from bondage, or if a black man be born within the United States and born free, he becomes thenceforward a citizen ...
Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism Van Gosse 2010
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Few if any other nations manumitted quickly, but they all managed to end slavery without war.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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If a slave born in the United States be manumitted, or otherwise lawfully discharged from bondage, or if a black man be born within the United States and born free, he becomes thenceforward a citizen...
Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism Van Gosse 2010
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Exogamous unions with newly-arrived immigrants, with locally-born settlers from previously unrelated families (including free blacks), and with manumitted slaves coexisted with endogamy, suggesting that parents and/or cohorts of siblings sought to reinforce existing connections and to make new alliances in every generation.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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First, using racism the ruling class would divide and conquer: the Indian populations would be destroyed for the purpose of clearing land for industrious poor white farmers and newly manumitted servants so that they could obtain wealth and status to dominate those who would have no chance at either.
Why We Need Black-White Unity to Save America-An Historical Perspective 2009
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Logically, Zardari is determined to safeguard the Establishment judges who upheld the National Reconciliation Ordinance that manumitted Zardari from all criminal action.
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In other words, Jefferson had 24 years in which he could have legally manumitted any or all of his slaves by doing nothing more than drawing up the papers and getting them witnessed.
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Later legislation stated that manumitted blacks had to leave the colony.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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