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The latter was naturally happy to retain a hold over his manumitted slave, who would remain dependent on him: the former master would become the buyer for the freed man's products or would serve as the middleman for outside buyers.

The manumission of slaves in Brazil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Perceiving that excessive use of force would not end black rebelliousness, Monroe attributed slave unrest to the growing number of manumitted and runaway slaves, what Winthrop D.

GOVERNOR JAMES MONROE AND SOUTHAMPTON SLAVE RESISTANCE OF 1799

The Athenians did not follow the suggestion, but they constantly manumitted small numbers of slaves nevertheless.

The Athenian democracy and its slaves

The slave was considered a human being in Spanish America, a legal personality, possessing innumerable rights, as the Catholic Church Sacraments: baptism, marriage, parenthood, and death; to buy his freedom from his master, to be manumitted or freed by his owner; to be heir of his master; to be freed by the State by performing an act of service to the country.

AN ACCOUNT ON SLAVERY IN PUERTO RICO: HISTORIC SLAVE LEGISLATION, 16TH TO 19TH CENTURY/UM RELATO SOBRE A ESCRAVIDAO EM PORTO RICO: LEGISLACAO ESCRAVISTA HISTORICA, DOS SECULOS XVI A XIX

Theodora's mother had had sexual relations and was living with her slave "under the pretense that they were legally married," but she had never manumitted the slave (Evans Grubbs, Law and Family 276).

Slaves, coloni, and status confusion in the Late Roman Empire

The story that connects one 18th century Tijucan manumitted slavewoman to the African continent, the Caribbean, and the histoiy of racialized gender in the Americas, continues to fascinate artists and scholars because of her capacity to contradict cultural theories and surpass linear models of time.

Sketches of Chica da Silva: fictional, filmic, and choreographic accounts

Unproductive slaves, like those who were elderly or handicapped, were sometimes manumitted so that their owners no longer had to take care of them.

THE FORMATION OF A FREE NON-WHITE ELITE IN PARAMARIBO, 1800-1863

Her overall emotional condition can be treated as the allegory relative to the attitudes many manumitted black slaves held after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Toni Morrison's emotional tropes in A Mercy as a literary representation of historical truth

His dislike of the institution was exacerbated by his efforts to execute his father-in-law's will, which manumitted Parke Custis's slaves.

General of the Lost Cause

Here Shulman draws on Orlando Patterson's work on slavery as 'social death' to make the case that redemption is a literal rebirth in Morrison's imagery: 'a manumitted slave is reborn as a member of a community from which social death had excluded him' (p.

Can prophecy save us?

Since the Emancipation Proclamation has not been mentioned and the girls and their once-enslaved mothers were never legally manumitted (as Tulee and Benny were), their status is ambiguous.

Iconoclasm, parody, and the provocations of lydia maria child's a romance of the republic

In "Is Yellow Black or White?" Gary Okihiro explains that cooliesm was very convenient to white Americans, who could replace manumitted slaves with cheap workers from Asia.