| 31. | Manumission was not always charitable or altruistic.
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| 32. | The most significant reform was the manumission of all slaves who had fought for Spain.
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| 33. | Carter nonetheless began a personal program of gradual manumission of slaves on his many estates.
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| 34. | In the early 19th century, the state legislature passed laws making manumission more difficult.
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| 35. | Some individual slaves were freed as early as the mid-17th century by manumission.
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| 36. | In the 17th century some owners began the process of manumission of people of color.
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| 37. | The Quran urges kindness to the slave and recommends their liberation by purchase or manumission.
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| 38. | Clubs like Sundissential and Manumission became household names with British, German and Italian tourists.
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| 39. | However, testamentary manumission provisions were illegal in Virginia when John Pleasants died in 1771.
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| 40. | However, Martha freed the slaves before her death in an 1800 deed of manumission.
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