manumitted

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The word is derived from manumit

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of Manumit

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Also in the postwar years, individual slaveholders, particularly in the Upper South, manumitted slaves, sometimes in their wills. Source: Internet

An owner who manumitted a slave paid a "freedom tax", calculated at 5 percent of value. Source: Internet

Customarily a newly enfranchised citizen would adopt the praenomen and nomen of his patron; that is, the person who had adopted or manumitted him, or otherwise procured his citizenship. Source: Internet

Although they received £72,940 from the British Government in compensation, this was only a fraction of the true economic value of the manumitted slaves. Source: Internet

Lettsome manumitted 1,000 slaves upon inheriting them. Source: Internet

Talented slaves with a knack for business might accumulate a large enough peculium to justify their freedom, or be manumitted for services rendered. Source: Internet

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