| We think, if any manumit, before we license them to part, they do usurp a power is ours by nature. |
| From that moment he possessed authority to manumit not less absolute than the sovereign, but immeasurably more power to avenge. |
| It even seemed possible that they could improve the conditions of slaves and persuade ever more planters to manumit their bondsmen. |
| Jefferson's actions are also juxtaposed here with those of other Virginia planters who did manumit their slaves. |
| My master, on leaving England, persuaded me to accompany him, promising legally to manumit me on our arrival in the States. |
| He gave the law, that every shire in the kingdom should annually manumit one thrall. |
