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Paul Koulen (1973) wrote in Schets van de historische ontwikkeling van de manumissie in Suriname (1733-1863) [A sketch of the historical development of the manumission in Suriname (1733-1863)], that the discrepancy between the legal texts and the actual situation, the way manumitted were treated, played a role in being able to properly interpret the position of the manumitted.

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

Jupiter, having been manumitted by the Legrand family, moves across the country with Legrand, a decision for which the narrator offers a pat, if somewhat untidy, explanation:

Poe's steadfast servant in the aftermath of Walker's Appeal

As a result, most masters reluctantly manumitted their enslaved, and only after receiving a significant sum of money in recompense.

Maria de Terranova: a West African woman and the quest for freedom in colonial Mexico

Henry asserts that the act of eating together, a liberty they did not have under slavery, served a symbolic purpose for the newly manumitted.

Natasha L. Henry. Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada

To restore water to Bebba's Town, Jack and his two companions--the manumitted slave girl Pega and the monastery's slave Brutus--are then propelled on another adventure, this time to the underground kingdom of the elves.

Christian, Norse and Celtic: metaphysical belief structures in Nancy Farmer's The Saxon Saga

Dickinson freed his slaves after the War for Independence (the only major slave-owner to do so), and Carroll quietly manumitted many of his during the last 30 years of his life.

A life rediscovered

Nicarete was a freedwoman and married to a certain Hippias, a cook and probably also a manumitted slave.

Kinky stories from the rostrum: storytelling in Apollodorus' Against Neaira

The effects of these individuals on Roman culture at large were profound; many of them were eventually manumitted, but even as slaves they exerted a decisive effect on the imaginative world and the educational practices of ancient Rome.

Roman Art

In a collective petition for freedom based on the unfulfilled promises made during the Dutch War, the free persons and manumitted mulattos threatened that if they did not obtain a favorable response, they had only two alternatives: suicide or escape to Palmares.

South Atlantic wars: the episode of Palmares

Some were people of color who had been manumitted by their owners.

Beyond the mountains there are mountains again--Haitian Proverb

As a member of the Maryland Senate between 1816 and 1821, he supported several resolutions seeking to limit slaveholding, and, by 1820, had manumitted 11 of his own slaves.

The real justice Taney

Anyone, including manumitted persons, who was caught harboring runaway slaves would lose his or her freedom as well as that of his/her family.