Slaves manumission

In 1785 Jay founded and served as first president of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves on whose board of directors Hamilton also sat. Later, as Governor of New York, Jay signed a bill (April 1799) to emancipate slaves. See DC, vol. i, P 1015. 

Scholars have long conjectured that slaves obtaining manumission at Athens were likely to be disproportionately those who had special access... 

Zelnick-Abramovitz, R. 2005. Not Wholly Free The Concept of Manumission and the Status of Manumitted Slaves in the Ancient Greek World. Mnemosyne Supplement 266. Leiden. 

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