| Through the efforts of the Westbury Friends and the minister Elias Hicks, more than 150 manumissions of slavery were recorded by 1790 on Long Island. |
| Some are contracts about slavery, loans, manumissions, the purchase of beer, or marriage agreements. |
| While the Black Code of 1806 restricted manumissions to slaves aged 30 or older, an 1831 amendment allowed slaves under 30 to be manumitted if they were natives of Louisiana. |
| As a result, manumissions decreased dramatically in the South. |
| Slave manumissions ran well above the Southern, though perhaps not the Virginia, average. |
| Study of statutes and local legislation yields a variety of rules about sales, manumissions, learning trades, crimes, and more. |
