History of the United States I / Unit 7 USH1 0910 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Manumission and Its Limits
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The idea
Abolitionist sentiment produced private manumissions and organised societies, and Virginia slaveholders freed about ten thousand people.
In practice
The Pennsylvania Abolition Society of seventeen seventy-five and the New York Manumission Society of seventeen eighty-five.
Where people slip
The New York society educated Black children and protected free Black people from kidnapping, which indicates what freedom did not secure.
Your place on the trail
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