manumitting

Updated: May 13, 2025

I am not the man who enslaved them; they are indebted to Englishmen for that favor; nevertheless I am devising means for manumitting many of them, and for cutting off the entail of slavery. Great powers oppose me the laws and customs of my country, my own and the avarice of my countrymen. What will my children say if I deprive them of so much estate? These are difficulties, but not insuperable.

Benjamin Griffith Brawley - A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including: A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

Considering it of extreme importance to preserve the Roman people pure, and untainted with a mixture of foreign or servile blood, he not only bestowed the freedom of the city with a sparing hand, but laid some restriction upon the practice of manumitting slaves.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete