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Definition of Manumitted
1. manumit [v] - See also: manumit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumitted
Literary usage of Manumitted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the by Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, George Ticknor Curtis (1863)
"A negro legally manumitted ¡в entitled to his freedom, ... Where, by will, the
testator intends clearly that his slaves should be manumitted, ..."
2. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"... manumitted and set free; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid,
that it shall be, and is hereby declared lawful for any Indian or negro ..."
3. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"... Smith Claims His Mistress manumitted Him. Hon'd Sir, I beg leave to return
you my sincere thanks for your kindness to me when I was in the family, ..."
4. The Black Code of the District of Columbia, in Force September 1st, 1848 by Worthington Garrettson Snethen, Washington (D.C.), United States (1848)
"manumitted SLAVES NOT ENTITLED TO THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE OR OF OFFICE. No slave
manumitted agreeably to the laws of this state, shall be entitled to the ..."
5. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"From this slavery, unlike the son, the wife could never be manumitted; no legal
forms were provided. It was lasting as her life. ..."
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