41. The First Epistle to the Corinthians describes lawfully obtained manumission as the ideal for slaves. 42. Payne Todd s will provided for the manumission of all his slaves upon his death. 43. He was a founder of the New York Manumission Society, which worked to free slaves. 44. Robert Pleasants also lobbied extensively for manumission laws and founded the Virginia Abolition Society in 1790. 45. South Carolina kept these restrictions against manumission until slavery was abolished after the American Civil War. 46. Abolitionists have also used text from the New Testament to argue for the manumission of slaves. 47. He was born a slave around 1873, before the manumission following the Second Mexican War. 48. Manumissions were different in different epochs.49. Virginia and other state legislatures in the early nineteenth century made manumissions more difficult to obtain. 50. Originally the Manumission Society hired white teachers, but it eventually employed black teachers as well.
