Examples of manumission in the following topics:
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- Freedom for slaves could only be obtained through manumission by their owner, or through dangerous escape.
- Under the system of slavery in the United States, freedom for slaves was only possible by running away (which was difficult and illegal to do) or by manumission by the slave owners, which was frequently regulated or prohibited by law.
- The principal organized bodies to advocate these reforms in the North were the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the New York Manumission Society.
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- Manumissions increased for nearly two decades.
- Many individual acts of manumission freed thousands of slaves in total.
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- The principal organized bodies to advocate this reform were the Pennsylvania Antislavery Society and the New York Manumission Society.
- John Jay (1745–1829), founder of the abolitionist organization New York Manumission Society in 1785.
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- In 1806, with concern developing over the rise in the number of free black people in the United States and the success of the Haitian Revolution, the Virginia General Assembly modified the 1782 slave law to permit the re-enslavement of freedmen who remained in the state for more than twelve months after manumission.
- This new law led to an overall decline in manumissions in the state.
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- Prior to Gabriel's Rebellion, some Virginian slave owners were wary of the increasing number of free blacks and argued for stricter manumission laws.
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- The principal organized bodies to advocate these reforms in the north were the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the New York Manumission Society.
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- Although Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware were slave states, their legislatures passed measures geared towards manumission.
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- Some slaves managed to purchase their own freedom through their kitchen gardens--saving their earnings for years to allow themselves and their children to achieve manumission.
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- In his will, he provided for their manumission and resettlement in Ohio.
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- Some slaves managed to purchase their own freedom through their kitchen gardens, saving their earnings for years to allow themselves and their children to achieve manumission.