Examples of manumit in the following topics:
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- Slaves who had been manumitted became freedmen and enjoyed largely
the same rights and protections as free-born citizens.
- Some who had received educations or learned skills that
allowed them to earn their own living were manumitted upon the death of their
owner, or allowed to earn money to buy their freedom during their owner’s
lifetime.
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- Methodists and Quakers especially worked to convince slaveholders to manumit slaves.
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- To gain permission for manumitted freedmen to stay in the state, slaveholders were required to petition the legislature directly.
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- "Conductors" on the
railroad came from various backgrounds and included free-born blacks, white
abolitionists, former slaves (either escaped or manumitted), and Native Americans.