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  2. Black Laws of 1804 and 1807 - Wikipedia

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    Ohio blacks could not vote, hold office, serve in the state militia, or serve jury duty. Blacks were not permitted in the public school system until 1848, when a law was passed that permitted communities to establish segregated schools. In 1837, black Ohioans met in a statewide convention seeking repeal of the Black Laws. [2]

  3. History of slavery in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of the enslaved population of the United States as a percentage of the population of each state, 1790–1860. Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions ...

  4. Ohio Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was originally created as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [2] Its first meeting took place in Putnam, Ohio, in April of 1835, [3] and gathered delegates from 25 counties, along with four corresponding members from other states, William T. Allan, James G. Birney, James A. Thome and Ebenezer Martin. [4]

  5. Northwest Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    The language of the ordinance prohibits slavery [22] but also contains a clear fugitive slave clause. [23] An attempt to add limited slavery to the proposed constitution of Ohio in 1802 was defeated after a major effort led by Ephraim Cutler, who represented Marietta, the town founded by the Ohio Company. [24]

  6. Slavery in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million [ 1 ] to 49.6 million, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition ...

  7. Treatment of slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. Seidule, Ty (2020). Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250239266. Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. New York ...

  8. Slave rebellion and resistance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [4]: 597 As such, "Confrontation in the Old South characteristically took the form of an individual slave's open resistance to plantation authorities," [4]: 599 or other individual or small-group actions, such as slaves opportunistically killing slave traders in hopes of avoiding forced migration away from friends and family. [5] [6]

  9. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Wikipedia

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    The center's principal artifact is a 21 by 30-foot (6 by 9 m), two-story log slave pen built in 1830. By 2003, it was "the only known surviving rural slave jail," previously used to house slaves prior to their being shipped to auction. [2] The structure was moved from a farm in Mason County, Kentucky, where a tobacco barn had been built around it.