A Jamaican act restricted who could legally manumit an enslaved person. Except for the island’s legislature, an owner had to provide security for an annual £5 payment to the freed person for life before manumission. The law described formerly enslaved people as a public nuisance, exposing the racial assumptions behind the regulation. The requirement could make emancipation harder to obtain and kept freedom subject to colonial oversight and financial conditions.
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What condition did the 1774 manumission law impose on most private owners?
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The statute required security for £5 annual support during the person’s life.