31. Manumission was not always charitable or altruistic.32. The most significant reform was the manumission of all slaves who had fought for Spain. 33. Carter nonetheless began a personal program of gradual manumission of slaves on his many estates. 34. In the early 19th century, the state legislature passed laws making manumission more difficult. 35. Some individual slaves were freed as early as the mid-17th century by manumission . 36. In the 17th century some owners began the process of manumission of people of color. 37. The Quran urges kindness to the slave and recommends their liberation by purchase or manumission . 38. Clubs like Sundissential and Manumission became household names with British, German and Italian tourists. 39. However, testamentary manumission provisions were illegal in Virginia when John Pleasants died in 1771. 40. However, Martha freed the slaves before her death in an 1800 deed of manumission .
