Manumission
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Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular society. Historia
Relief depicting the manumission of two slaves, with pileus hats (1st century BC, Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium.
Original manumission for Gowan Pamphlet of the Colony of Virginia, which freed him from slavery. Signed by his owner, David Miller. c. 1793.
Letter where one can read that the slave Geraldo will be free with the condition of working for another 6 years (Brazil).
Robert Carter III
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Robert Carter III was an American planter and politician from the Northern Neck of Virginia. During the colonial period, he sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for roughly two decades. After the Am
Manumission
…tobacco cultivation to mixed-crop farming. Slave states such as Virginia made it easier for slaveholders to free their slaves. From 1791 the Virginian Robert Carter III (1728–1804) emancipated almost 500 slaves. In the two decades after the American Revolutionary War, so many slaveholders accomplished manumissions by…
Portrait by Thomas Hudson, 1753