It even seemed possible that they could improve the conditions of slaves and persuade ever more planters to manumit their bondsmen. |
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Methodist and many Baptist clergy opposed human bondage and at first called on believers to manumit their slaves. |
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In response, members of the Georgia and South Carolina Congressional delegations intimated that if Congress attempted to manumit slaves, their states would leave the Union. |
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Napoleon refused to manumit the Russian serfs because of concerns this might provoke a reaction in his army's rear. |
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Methodist, Quaker and Baptist preachers traveled in the South, appealing to slaveholders to manumit their slaves. |
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It is permitted to enslave someone after a battle, but it is meritorious to manumit a slave. |
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In imperial times, they were accorded the power to manumit slaves, take legacies, and finally though this became general only in postclassical law to be instituted as an heir. |
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Jefferson's actions are also juxtaposed here with those of other Virginia planters who did manumit their slaves. |
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Robert did not manumit his daughter as his father had manumitted him. |
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Manumit studied the biases and accuracy of the predictions made by management on the basis of 1989 regulations in Canadian companies. |
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