A Grenada act clarified that earlier laws requiring £100 for each manumission had been repealed and that properly proved and registered freedom documents should be accepted in court. The need to “remove doubts” shows how legal freedom could be obstructed by conflicting statutes and documentary requirements. Manumission remained conditional and the act did not free the enslaved population as a whole.
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What did Grenada’s 1826 manumission act clarify?
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The act removed doubts created by overlapping laws and accepted properly proved freedom documents.
The 1826 act clarified that a £100 fee remained a necessary condition for proving manumission.
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It removed doubts about repeal and accepted properly proved freedom documents without that fee.