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
A democratic statesman said to me, long since, that, if he owned the State of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
At this period he tested the disposition of slaveholders to manumit their slaves.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry
They were not required so far as we know, in any instance, to manumit their slaves.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by Woodward, A.
If you don't or if somebody else don't free me from this vampire, I'll be fool enough to manumit her and marry her as soon as she is free!'
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas
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