Assertion: slave | /r/CapableOf | buy their freedom
Facets:
value: from a quaker merchant
type: OTHER
value: in the event
type: TEMPORAL
value: in 1766
type: TEMPORAL
value: under "el código negro"
type: LOCATION
value: by paying the price
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: A slave could only get their freedom if they were given it by their master or if they bought their freedom.
text: Under "El Código Negro", a slave could buy his freedom, in the event that his master was willing to sell, by paying the price sought in installments.
text: A former slave who purchased his freedom from a Quaker merchant in 1766, he traveled across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean on British merchant ships, served in the British navy, and became a leading figure in the 18th-century British antislavery movement.
text: However, slaves were not emancipated but rather had to buy their own freedom, at whatever price was set by their last masters.
text: Sometimes a slave owner would even let the slave keep money they earned while performing a trade, so that they could buy their freedom.
text: In the Spanish Louisiana although there was no movement toward abolition of the African slave trade, Spanish rule introduced a new law called coartación, which allowed slaves to buy their freedom, and that of others.
text: In this way, a slave might save enough not only to live on his own, but also to buy his freedom.
text: In ancient Egypt, there has so far never been any evidence to show that a slave ever purchased his freedom.