In 1935, City and Country, in conjunction with Bank Street, Little Red Schoolhouse, Walden, Hessian Hills, and Manumit formed the Associated Experimental Schools to coordinate cooperative buying and fund raising.
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Cardinal Dulles points out that, " while discreetly suggesting that he manumit Onesimus, [ Paul ] does not say that Philemon is morally obliged to free Onesimus and any other slaves he may have had ."
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This society was instrumental in having a state law passed in 1785 prohibiting the sale of slaves imported into the state, and making it easy for slaveholders to manumit slaves either by a registered certificate or by will.
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She believed that slaveholders were anxious to manumit their people, but apprehensive of throwing them unprepared into the world . Wright imagined that if her experimental community was successful, its methods could be applied throughout the nation.
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The first time was in 1862 after the France against the United States during the Second Mexican War, after both a promise from the Confederacy to manumit their slaves, and in response to the aggressive behavior from the United States.
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Five decades later, in 1857, owner Hannah Jones Coalter ( the 77-year-old mother of a disabled daughter named Janet ), died and attempted to manumit her 93 slaves after making provision both for her daughter and them.
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O Kelly envisioned a republican [ meaning free ], no-slavery [ O Kelly s 1789 Essay on Negro Slavery posited that all Methodist ministers should manumit their slaves . ], glorious church that would be congregationally based.
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Therefore, Elizabeth and David Dickson had no means to manumit Amanda and keep her with them in Georgia until the Thirteenth Amendment to the U . S . Constitution, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, was ratified on December 6, 1865.
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Cardinal Dulles points out that, " while discreetly suggesting that he manumit Onesimus, [ Paul ] does not say that Philemon is morally obliged to free Onesimus and any other slaves he may have had . " ( According to tradition, Philemon did free Onesimus, and both were eventually recognized as saints by the Church . ) Seldom noted in the debate was the situation of Onesimus if he had not returned : an outlaw and a fugitive with limited options to support himself, and in constant fear of discovery and punishment.
