| 21. | Similar to Pennsylvania's law, it provided for gradual manumission of slaves.
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| 22. | The slaves were differentiated by origin and different disabilities and rules for manumission applied.
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| 23. | The old civil law ( ius civile Quiritium ) recognized three kinds of manumissions:
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| 24. | Upon manumission, they were to be given land and tools to work it.
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| 25. | Following his departure, the Assembly passed a law in 1782 making manumission easier.
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| 26. | Petitioners for freedom often claimed that a promised manumission had not been fully executed.
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| 27. | Smallwood opposed manumission, or the legal purchasing of slaves to secure their freedom.
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| 28. | Beginning as early as the 17th century, some planters freed individual slaves by manumission.
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| 29. | The prospect of manumission worked as an incentive for slaves to be industrious and compliant.
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| 30. | Manumission contracts found in some abundance at Delphi specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation.
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