Sentence example with the word 'manumit'

manumit

Definition v. free from slavery or servitude

Last update: July 1, 2015


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Though he was an outspoken defender of liberty, this son of Virginia did not manumit his own slaves until he was on his deathbed.   [verb]

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To manumit is to release from slavery.   [verb]

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His earliest legislative effort, in the five-day session of 1769, had been marked by an effort to secure to masters freedom to manumit their slaves without removing them from the state.   [Please select]

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But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens with some restrictions.   [Please select]

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At this period he tested the disposition of slaveholders to manumit their slaves.   [Please select]

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Thereafter what English slaves were brought to Algiers he purchased, manumitted, and found means to send home again.   [Please select]

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The slaves in Puerto Rico were not emancipated until March 22, 1873, when 31,000 were manumitted in one day, at a cost to the Government of 200 pesos each, plus the interest on the bonds that were issued.   [Please select]

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He was finally manumitted, but lived all his life in the deepest poverty, to which he attached no more importance than Socrates did at Athens.   [Please select]

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