Launched in the early '90s by brothers Andy and Mike Mckay, and their then respective partners Dawn Hindle and Claire Davies, ...

Jefferson could not conceive of an America that would assimilate free Black citizens. He feared that slavery had so injured ...

Another difference between Roman slavery and its more modern variety was manumission – the ability of slaves to be freed. Roman owners freed their slaves in considerable numbers: some freed them ...

In 1780, Pennsylvania, led by Quaker abolitionists, became the first state to mandate the gradual manumission of all enslaved people. But these 339 manumissions — a lesser number than 413 ...

They're probably the most famous couple on the Island. Mike and Claire Manumission have had more to do with sculpting the Ibiza we see today than anyone else. Almost everyone who visits Ibiza goes ...

Publicity is perhaps the most frequently cited rationale for slave redemption. Certainly the on-camera manumission of a modern-day slave presents a powerful image for broadcast television.

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The Manumission Tour Company offers a more nuanced picture. Tour group owner John Taylor Chapman grew up in Alexandria, where, he says, “we heard about George Washington, we heard about Gadsby’s ...

Take a tour of the city on the "Black History in Alexandria" Bus Tour hosted by the Manumission Tour Company. The two-hour guided tour takes visitors on a journey through the area to see ...

After all, not all slaveholders gave their slaves the option of buying their own freedom, very few southern states held manumission to be a legal option, and the very notion of having to buy one's ...