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Definition of Manumitting
1. manumit [v] - See also: manumit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumitting
Literary usage of Manumitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of the Constitution of the British Colonies, in North-America and the by Anthony Stokes (1783)
"Of the NEGROES in the Colonies, and the Mode of conveying and manumitting them.
... manumitting ..."
2. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 by New York (State)., Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1868)
"ACT Of the Director and Council of New Nether-land manumitting a Negro Slave.
Parsed 27 September, 1646. PT. T. CoL MSS. IV. S71. ..."
3. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"So also can one who has bought a slave with the condition of manumitting him,
even if he have not done so, and the slave become free by the constitution of ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland by Richard Wordsworth Gill, Oliver Miller, Maryland Court of Appeals (1852)
"Neither is the fact, that the manumitting terms are in strict conformity with
our act, ... 1, the power of manumitting slaves by last will was taken away; ..."
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