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How to use manumit in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word manumit? Here are some examples.

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It even seemed possible that they could improve the conditions of slaves and persuade ever more planters to manumit their bondsmen.
Methodist and many Baptist clergy opposed human bondage and at first called on believers to manumit their slaves.
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.
Napoleon refused to manumit the Russian serfs because of concerns this might provoke a reaction in his army's rear.
Methodist, Quaker and Baptist preachers traveled in the South, appealing to slaveholders to manumit their slaves.
It is permitted to enslave someone after a battle, but it is meritorious to manumit a slave.
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.
Jefferson's actions are also juxtaposed here with those of other Virginia planters who did manumit their slaves.
Robert did not manumit his daughter as his father had manumitted him.
Manumit studied the biases and accuracy of the predictions made by management on the basis of 1989 regulations in Canadian companies.
Examples from Classical Literature
My master, on leaving England, persuaded me to accompany him, promising legally to manumit me on our arrival in the States.
He gave the law, that every shire in the kingdom should annually manumit one thrall.
Suppose the South should manumit their slaves, will the North receive and educate them?
They were not required so far as we know, in any instance, to manumit their slaves.
We think, if any manumit, before we license them to part, they do usurp a power is ours by nature.
From that moment he possessed authority to manumit not less absolute than the sovereign, but immeasurably more power to avenge.
The tendency to manumit faithful slaves called forth no approbation.
Even baptism did not manumit him unless the owner were a Moor or a Jew.
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