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Quaker trusteeship
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In the early nineteenth century, Quakers in North Carolina used trusts to free slaves. At the time, North Carolina had adopted laws restricting the ability of slaveowners to free their slaves. To get around these laws individual Quakers began entrusting their slaves to their church. The Quaker organization held on to the slaves in conditions of virtual freedom, until it could obtain the legal freedom of the slave. While this method of freeing slaves was initially popular, the practice fell into disuse as a result of demographic and political reasons.
==Background==
During the eighteenth century, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted tight restrictions on manumission. In 1723, the Assembly prohibited slave owners from freeing their slaves, unless as a reward for “meritorious service”.〔Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, ''Southern Quakers and Slavery: A Study in Institutional History'', Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, (1896), p.217-244〕 This restriction was reaffirmed in 1741, 1777 and finally in 1796. By the beginning of the nineteenth century it was the most restrictive law of its kind in the states of the Upper South.〔Berlin, Ira, ''Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South'', Oxford University Press, London and New York, (1974) p.29-35; 140-144〕 As a result of these restrictive policies many North Carolinians interested in emancipation, especially Quakers, made active attempts to circumvent the law by emancipating their slaves.
The Quakers of North Carolina committed themselves to rid their community of slave ownership. At the 1782 Yearly Meeting, the leaders of the community required their members to emancipate all their slaves. This policy of manumission ran into direct conflict with the laws of North Carolina. .〔 As a result, the Quakers actively sought a way to emancipate slaves.
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