| 41. | The First Epistle to the Corinthians describes lawfully obtained manumission as the ideal for slaves.
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| 42. | Payne Todd s will provided for the manumission of all his slaves upon his death.
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| 43. | He was a founder of the New York Manumission Society, which worked to free slaves.
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| 44. | Robert Pleasants also lobbied extensively for manumission laws and founded the Virginia Abolition Society in 1790.
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| 45. | South Carolina kept these restrictions against manumission until slavery was abolished after the American Civil War.
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| 46. | Abolitionists have also used text from the New Testament to argue for the manumission of slaves.
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| 47. | He was born a slave around 1873, before the manumission following the Second Mexican War.
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| 48. | Manumissions were different in different epochs.
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| 49. | Virginia and other state legislatures in the early nineteenth century made manumissions more difficult to obtain.
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| 50. | Originally the Manumission Society hired white teachers, but it eventually employed black teachers as well.
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