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Vermont was amongst the first places to abolish slavery by constitutional dictum. [1] Although estimates place the number of slaves at 25 in 1770, [2] [3] slavery was banned outright [4] upon the founding of Vermont in July 1777, and by a further provision in its Constitution, existing male slaves became free at the age of 21 and females at the age of 18. [5]
TheatreZone is a Professional Equity Theatre Company located in Naples, Florida. It performs in the G&L Theatre on the Campus of The Community School of Naples at 13275 Livingston Road. TheatreZone presents what it calls "The Lost Treasures Of Broadway," shows that are rarely performed and deserve to be seen. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The legal status of slavery in New Hampshire has been described as "ambiguous," [16] and abolition legislation was minimal or non-existent. [17] New Hampshire never passed a state law abolishing slavery. [18] That said, New Hampshire was a free state with no slavery to speak of from the American Revolution forward. [10] New Jersey
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A Vermont artist has lost his legal battle to force a law school to display a mural that portrays enslaved Black people in a style critics have called “cartoonish” and “racist.”
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The Vermont Republic officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. [1] The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of Quebec ...
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