162, 163 Serfs, manumission of, i.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
If manumission is actually or virtually forbidden, he may take his slaves into a Free State; and, by such act alone, they become freemen.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
The comparative mildness of the Brazilian treatment of negroes, the practice of voluntary manumission, and the fact that no impenetrable race barrier existed all contributed to make slavery a less fearful thing in Brazil than in North America.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson