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Manumitted in a sentence
Manumitted meaning
simple past and past participle of manumit
Using Manumitted
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of manumit
- In the example corpus, manumitted often appears in combinations such as: manumitted slaves.
Context around Manumitted
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Manumitted
- In this selection, "manumitted" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, self, south, lettsome, slaves and black stand out and add context to how "manumitted" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adopted or manumitted him or and by self manumitted black people. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "manumitted" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with manumitted
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lettsome manumitted 1,000 slaves upon inheriting them. (8 words)
Yet, although conflicted, Henry Laurens never manumitted his 260 slaves. (10 words)
Occasionally, a slave was manumitted or freed but the overwhelming majority died in hopeless bondage. (15 words)
While serving as a general prior to being president, Andrew Jackson led a military campaign against the Seminole nation and the free communities established by self-manumitted Black people in Florida. (31 words)
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. (29 words)
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. (25 words)
Example sentences (10)
Occasionally, a slave was manumitted or freed but the overwhelming majority died in hopeless bondage.
While serving as a general prior to being president, Andrew Jackson led a military campaign against the Seminole nation and the free communities established by self-manumitted Black people in Florida.
Also in the postwar years, individual slaveholders, particularly in the Upper South, manumitted slaves, sometimes in their wills.
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.
An owner who manumitted a slave paid a "freedom tax", calculated at 5 percent of value.
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.
Lettsome manumitted 1,000 slaves upon inheriting them.
Talented slaves with a knack for business might accumulate a large enough peculium to justify their freedom, or be manumitted for services rendered.
They could not vote, plead in court nor leave a will; unless they were manumitted, their lives and property belonged to their masters.
Yet, although conflicted, Henry Laurens never manumitted his 260 slaves.
Common combinations with manumitted
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: