| From that moment he possessed authority to manumit not less absolute than the sovereign, but immeasurably more power to avenge. |
| He gave the law, that every shire in the kingdom should annually manumit one thrall. |
| We think, if any manumit, before we license them to part, they do usurp a power is ours by nature. |
| Suppose the South should manumit their slaves, will the North receive and educate them? |
| Jefferson's actions are also juxtaposed here with those of other Virginia planters who did manumit their slaves. |
| The tendency to manumit faithful slaves called forth no approbation. |
