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Manumission

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

Raymond Gavins
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Duke University, North Carolina
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Manumission was the act of freeing from slavery. A master could manumit his slave for “meritorious service.” By 1750, amid growing slave population and unrest, he needed a colony's and then state's approval. Northern states abolished slavery in 1780–1843; the South ended manumissions, except by legislatures. South Carolina forbade manumission (1820) and free-black immigration (1822).

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Rose, Willie Lee, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
Newman, Richard S.The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

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  • Manumission
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.191
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  • Manumission
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.191
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  • Manumission
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.191
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