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MANUMISSION, contracts. The agreement by which the owner or master of a
slave sets him free and at liberty; the written instrument which contains
this agreement is also called a manumission.
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Warren Wilson College has offered older students a comparable though less daring example, as did the K-12 Manumit School where Goodman himself worked for a few years during the Forties. Jefferson's estate records reveal that he did manumit these Hemingses when each turned 21 or shortly thereafter. Owners were permitted to manumit slaves without posting bond if the slave was under 50 years of age and not likely to become a public charge. |
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