mancipation

Before 'mancipation my mammy and daddy owned by the very same old fellar, Thomas Henry McNeil.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

De day de mancipation wuz read dey wuz sadness an 'gladness.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

I don't know how my uncle got to Helena but he was turned loose down in this country at 'mancipation.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration

After 'mancipation papa stop calling himself Jacob Baldwin and called himself Jacob Brown in his own pa's name.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Joe Heywood wuz Joe Belin -- he was Parson Belin man -- he take the Heywood title after mancipation.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

They fed the colored folks till little after 'mancipation.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

More recently a third kind was introduced, called the will by bronze and balance, because it was made by mancipation, which was a sort of fictitious sale, in the presence of five witnesses and a balance holder, all Roman citizens above the age of puberty, together with the person who was called the purchaser of the family.

The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

Well, 'mancipation came; we all know; can't stop to go troo de hull.

Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life;" Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death 1883

Well, 'mancipation came; we all know; can't stop to go troo de hull.

Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life": Olive Gilbert 1875

The parts of jurisprudence which he looked upon with affection were exactly those which a modern theorist leaves out of consideration as accidental and transitory; the solemn gestures of the mancipation; the nicely adjusted questions and answers of the verbal contract; the endless formalities of pleading and procedure.

Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855