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If a Mulatto ...
« on: Sunday 07 October 18 10:10 BST (UK) »
Can any read or interpret the word before Effranchised (?enfranchised)  ???

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Re: If a Mulatto ...
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 07 October 18 10:14 BST (UK) »
The word is manumitted = freed.

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Re: If a Mulatto ...
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 07 October 18 10:18 BST (UK) »
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manumitted

Thank you very much. 

At least he did seem to treat some of his "Negroes" with some compassion  :-\
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Re: If a Mulatto ...
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 07 October 18 11:13 BST (UK) »
More details of manumission in various cultures here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission

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Re: If a Mulatto ...
« Reply #4 on: Monday 08 October 18 07:11 BST (UK) »
A mulatto was commonly a person with one white and one black parent.  So James could well have been a son, or other close relative. 

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Re: If a Mulatto ...
« Reply #5 on: Monday 08 October 18 09:28 BST (UK) »
An interesting looking document.

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Re: If a Mulatto ...
« Reply #6 on: Monday 08 October 18 19:27 BST (UK) »
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An interesting looking document.
Alexander Ricketts, along with his estate and other possessions, leaves his Negro man slaves, Negro  women and Negro girl slaves "with the future issue offspring and increase of each of the females of the said slaves"  :'(
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Jones, incl Broster Jones and Tyzack Jones
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Re: If a Mulatto ...
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 09 October 18 00:07 BST (UK) »
"if a mulatto ",  the child his maid was expecting was to receive £100 or 3 slaves. (Have I got that right?) It seems to me that he thought the child might be his. If it wasn't a mulatto he would assume it had been fathered by a slave.
I agree with Greensleeves that the mulatto (James?) may have been his son or another relative. He was to be educated until he was 15 and receive a large sum of money in addition.

I can't decipher 2nd extract apart from some of names, Silvia, Polly, Agnes.
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