She told her tale; 'she was manumitted by a gentleman on the eastern shore of Maryland; her sons were born after her emancipation, and of course free.
Moreover, manumitted slaves enjoyed the same rights, privileges and immunities that were enjoyed by those born free.
The above-described ungrateful rogue I manumitted some years past, with a number of other slaves, who were free at different periods, and I am apprehensive he has got one of their discharges.
More than 2,700 of this number were taken from the slave States, and about two thirds of these were slaves manumitted on the condition of their emigrating.
Marriage of whites with slaves was forbidden, as was also the concubinage of whites and manumittedor free-born blacks with slaves.
Janette Wood of Richmond was manumitted in 1795 by her mother, "natural love" being the only consideration named in the legal instrument.
They emigrated from Virginia, in the year 1818, and were originally the slaves of Samuel Gist, who manumitted and settled them here, upon two large surveys of land.
Thy master has manumitted thee, and promised to maintain thee as long as thou mayest live.
Many years ago, he was a slave to my father, and he manumitted him.
Statius had been manumitted by Quintus Cicero, and there had been much talk about it, as we have already heard.
The manumitted creoles remove to where they are not known, because they do not wish that the state in which they were born should reach their new place of residence.
In law all persons who are not white, and are born free, class equally; manumitted slaves are placed upon the same footing as persons born free.
A considerable number of slaves are manumitted at the death of their masters, and indeed some persons of large property fail not to set at liberty a few of them during their own life-time.
The Congo negroes are permitted to elect a king and queen from among the individuals of their own nation; the personages who are fixed upon may either actually be slaves, or they may be manumitted negroes.
The slaves manumitted for meritorious service and those who bought themselves formed together an element of substantial worth in the Southern free colored population.
Among some of those manumitted and sent out of their original states as by law required, disappointment and homesickness were distressingly keen.
Most of the negroes who procured freedom remained in the United States, though all of those who gained it by flight and many of those manumitted had to shift their location at the time of changing their status.
Two of these last, the children of Joanny, a washerwoman at the overseer's house, were manumitted in 1795.
Manumitted slaves, free persons of color, and fugitives continued to come and at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War the community had been well established.
He would not even permit the ambassadors of free nations, nor of those which were allies of Rome, to sit in the orchestra; having found that some manumitted slaves had been sent under that character.
Augustus was the first who manumitted them, and employed them as rowers in his gallies.
A slave could be and was manumitted in both the United States and Brazil.
For he neither disposed of anything in the way of gift, nor manumitted a slave; nor so much as received any estate left him by will, nor any legacy, without reckoning it as a part of his peculium or property held under his father.
For, it appeared highly probable that the manumitted would not only be poor and wretched, but likewise a public nuisance; and perhaps at some future day, form the nucleus of rebellion among those unhappy persons still in slavery.
Any scheme of emancipation without colonization, they know and see and feel to be productive of nothing but evil; evil to all whom it affects: to the white population, to the slaves, to the manumitted themselves.
Now and then a slave is actually manumitted and removed, and the incident is dwelt upon for months.
A manumitted slave, a cumbrous yokel of an Essene, hath given thee troublous nights, because the lady's eyes soften in his presence!
The schools at Rome were mostly kept by manumitted slaves; and we learn from the Fasti, Book iii.
If the slave was manumitted by the owner in his lifetime, his 'peculium' was considered to be given him, with his liberty, unless it was expressly retained.
William King, a Presbyterian clergyman from Louisiana, had manumitted and settled slaves on this tract.
Thus begun, the service rapidly extended, being greatly favored by the character of the population in southeastern Pennsylvania, which was largely Quaker, with here and there some important settlements of manumitted slaves.
Nor do I consider the mass of the negro population in this country as yet prepared for colonization: but I would rejoice to see all well-disposed and intelligent negroes manumitted and colonized.
They knew well, that if they manumitted their slaves, it would involve both the slaves and themselves in greater evils than African slavery itself, as it exists in the Southern States.
Don't talk to Southern men about liberating slaves, until some provision is made for manumitted slaves--an asylum provided where they can quietly repose in peace, and enjoy the blessings of freedom.
You say, that the abolitionists would have the slaves manumitted "without compensation and without moral preparation.
That he was not Emery Rice, but Adam Gibson; that he was a freeman, having been manumitted by the will of his late master.
That the clause which relates to freedom by service was not intended for manumitted slaves is evident, from the fact that there were none; and it regarded not slavery, but limited servitude expired by efflux of time.
There is a man named Amphilochius, a manumitted slave, who broke into and robbed the villa of the master who had freed him.
When he died also he manumitted eight slaves, but they were all men.
Then Lucius Petronius yawned, stretched himself, and signed that the freedman who had robbed the master who had manumitted him, should be delivered to a panther.
These consisted of the taverner who had murdered his guests, the manumitted slave who had robbed his master, Baudillas, Marcianus and Perpetua.
Clearly an apprentice is discharged, but a slave is manumitted or emancipated.
These slaves often were manumitted when their duties were completed in a satisfactory manner.
At some period of his life, but how or when we do not know, Epictetus was manumitted by his master, and was henceforward regarded by the world as free.
Even at this period, however, negroes continued to be manumitted from motives of pure benevolence.
In 1746 Samuel Blunson manumitted his slaves at Columbia.
A negro twenty-one years old was manumitted because "all mankind have an Equal Natural and Just right to Liberty.
Know that of our special grace, we have manumitted all of our lieges and each of our subjects and others of the County of Hertford; and them and each of them have made free from all bondage, and by these presents make them quit.
Occasionally men were manumitted in order that they might be ordained as clergymen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manumitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
