The number of manumissions in the state reported to the board since the last annual report, is two hundred and ninety-nine, making the whole number reported as manumitted, since the passage of the act of 1831, eleven hundred and one.
As the landowners wanted all the labor they could get, the commutation of labor service for money payments ceased, and every effort was made and every quibble taken advantage of to annulmanumissions previously made.
The increase of manumissions must therefore have necessarily kept pace with the increase of the commercial and industrial activity of the Romans.
If devotion to the cause is to be measured by the actual manumissions effected, then Virginia's emancipators could contemplate with pride their record.
A register is kept by the society, manumissions are recorded in the court of Common Pleas.
A register of manumissions kept by the acting committee.
They are at the same time rapidly increasing from manumissions and from offspring, and of course lessening the general disproportion between the slaves and the whites.
The society preserve a register--and all manumissions are matter of record in the county courts.
Many manumissions have been effected since January 1796, but no precise information is yet received to what number and under what circumstances.
Manumissions now more than keep pace with the outlets provided, and the increase of them is checked only by their remaining in the Country.
Nor can we suppose that it was from religious motives only that manumissions were encouraged by the clergy.
At the beginning and end are manumissionsof serfs from whose names about two hundred Cornish words may be gathered.
In the same way, the five percent taxes on inheritances and manumissions were at first farmed out, but later (under Hadrian in the case of the former) collected directly by agents of the state.
The result of these wholesale manumissions was a tremendous increase in the freedmen class.
The Randolph estate, however, was so cumbered with debts that the desired manumissions could not then be made.
The liberal philosophy of the Revolution, persisting thereafter in spite of reaction, not only wrought the legal disestablishment of slavery throughout the North, but prompted private manumissions far and wide.
Footnote 36: Many of these are filed in the record books of manumissions in the archive rooms of the New Orleans city hall.
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