21. Similar to Pennsylvania's law, it provided for gradual manumission of slaves. 22. The slaves were differentiated by origin and different disabilities and rules for manumission applied. 23. The old civil law ( ius civile Quiritium ) recognized three kinds of manumissions : 24. Upon manumission , they were to be given land and tools to work it. 25. Following his departure, the Assembly passed a law in 1782 making manumission easier. 26. Petitioners for freedom often claimed that a promised manumission had not been fully executed. 27. Smallwood opposed manumission , or the legal purchasing of slaves to secure their freedom. 28. Beginning as early as the 17th century, some planters freed individual slaves by manumission . 29. The prospect of manumission worked as an incentive for slaves to be industrious and compliant. 30. Manumission contracts found in some abundance at Delphi specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation.
