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Declaration of Rights, saying ` I believe that all men are by nature free and equal and therefore I don't believe in slavery and I am hereby manumitting my slaves. '

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism 2001

This practice received highly favorable social sanction, and masters often celebrated national holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, and other special events by manumitting one or more of their favorite slaves.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs

Hence, the propriety of manumitting slaves is, to say the least, doubtful, unless they are colonized.

A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward

Much as he had blamed Mr. Duncan for negligence in not manumitting her mother, he had fallen into the same snare.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

"Many thousand individuals in our native State, you well know Mr. President, are restrained from manumitting their slaves, as you and I are, by the melancholy conviction that they cannot yield to the suggestions of humanity without manifest injury to their country."

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

Such is the character of the law which restricts and to a great degree prohibits the master from manumitting his slave.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

The minority entered a protest against it on several grounds: First, because it would be offensive to other states, and would weaken the bonds of union with them; Second, while they approved of the justice and humanity of manumitting slaves in time of peace, this was not the proper time;

Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 William Frederick Poole

Considering it of extreme importance to preserve the Roman people pure, and untainted with a mixture of foreign or servile blood, he not only bestowed the freedom of the city with a sparing hand, but laid some restriction upon the practice of manumitting slaves.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Do you suppose this bill will attach the people in these eleven States more thoroughly to the Union than they felt when they reörganized their State governments, passed laws manumitting their slaves, electing their Legislatures, and doing all that was indicated as necessary to be done?

History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

Considering it of extreme importance to preserve the Roman people pure, and untainted with a mixture of foreign or servile blood, he not only bestowed the freedom of the city with a sparing hand, but laid some restriction upon the practice of manumitting slaves.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus