Episode 146: Private Manumission: An Intimate Path to Freedom
Feb 21, 2020•31 min
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Episode description
The laws of early South Carolina allowed slave owners to set free an unknown number of men, women, and children with little or no interference from the government. Today we’ll explore the phenomenon of private manumission from the colonial era to the legislative interventions of the early nineteenth century that restricted and finally prohibited this traditional practice.
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