But now it seems that Mr. Royal bought her of her father; and he, good, easy man, neglected to manumit her.

By some unaccountable carelessness, he neglected to manumit her.

" "How was it possible that Mr. Royal neglected to manumit her?" inquired the young man.

He did manumit his daughters a few months before his decease; but it was decided that he was then too deeply in debt to have a right to dispose of any portion of his property.

I simply ask you now, as a gentleman who has it in his power to confer a great favor on an unprotected woman, whether you will manumit me.

I have entreated him, for the sake of our unborn child, to manumit me, and he has promised to do it.

He wouldn't manumit us.

V. liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise^; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver &c 672; absolve &c (acquit)

They went in three companies and with suitable young Friends to whom were executed powers of attorney to manumit, set free, settle and bind them out.[10]

The censors, or at least the consuls, should examine all whom it is proposed to manumit, inquiring into their origin and the reasons and mode of their enfranchisement, as in their examination of the equites.

If we must manumit our slaves, what country shall we send them to?

If we must manumit our slaves, what country shall we send them to?

The abundance of such holdings at New Orleans is evidenced by the multiplicity of applications from colored proprietors for authority to manumit slaves, with exemption from the legal requirement that the new freedmen must leave the state.

"Compromit, compromited, compromiting; manumit, manumitted, manumitting.

While he was gone, Friend Hopper negotiated with the master, who, finding there was little chance of regaining his slave, agreed to manumit him for one hundred and fifty dollars.

But suppose I were not free, what would you be willing to take to manumit me?" His master, somewhat softened, said, "Why, Dan, I always intended to set you free some time or other.

The first step was to write to Mr. McCalmont to ascertain what were the lowest terms on which he would manumit his slave.

" The master, being unable to ascertain where his slave could be found, finally informed Friend Hopper that he would manumit him on the receipt of one hundred and fifty dollars.

However, as there must unavoidably be considerable trouble and delay in procuring all the necessary evidence concerning the birth of the alleged slave, her friends agreed to dismiss them, if they would pay all expenses, give each of the officers five dollars, and manumit the girl.

Friend Hopper opened a negotiation with them in behalf of the Abolition Society, and they finally consented to manumit them all for seven hundred dollars.

When he had relinquished all hopes of finding her, he called on Isaac T. Hopper and offered to manumit her for four hundred dollars.

" The lawyer replied, "When he agreed to manumit the man for one hundred and fifty dollars, he expected these suits would be dismissed, of course, as a part of the bargain.

" Sixty dollars had already been expended in vain; and the slave-holder, having relinquished all hope of tracing the fugitives, finally agreed to manumit the woman for fifty dollars, and her son for seventy-five dollars.

A democratic statesman said to me, long since, that, if he owned the State of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.

It had always been his intention to manumit her, but, from inveterate habits of procrastination, he deferred it, till the fatal fever attacked them both; and so his child also was left to "follow the condition of her mother."