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As a result of this, Massachusetts was the only state to have zero slaves enumerated on the 1790 federal census. (By 1790, the Vermont Republic had also officially ended slavery, but it was not admitted as a state until 1791.) Maine, in the 1790 Census, also lists no enslaved people among its population but did not become a state until 1820.
The legal status of slavery in New Hampshire has been described as "ambiguous," [15] and abolition legislation was minimal or non-existent. [16] New Hampshire never passed a state law abolishing slavery. [17] That said, New Hampshire was a free state with no slavery to speak of from the American Revolution forward. [9] New Jersey
There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these ...
Massachusetts Republicans dominated the early antislavery movement during the 1830s, motivating activists across the nation. This, in turn, increased sectionalism in the North and South, one of the factors that led to the war. [1] Politicians from Massachusetts, echoing the views of social activists, further increased national tensions.
The Quaker meetinghouse was the site of the anti-slavery address by Benjamin Lund in 1828 and is believed to have been a safe house for fugitive slaves. [6] New Bedford, a port town, received ships from all over the world, bringing crew members of different cultures and languages.
The history of a Massachusetts beach named after an enslaved African American is the focus of new efforts to recognize the role of slavery in the state. Enslaved man who inspired beach name and ...
A mock slave auction held on Snapchat was directed at two particular students at Southwick Regional School, investigators allege SOUTHWICK, […] The post Massachusetts investigators pursue six ...
Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts (U of Georgia Press, 2014). Bremer, Francis J. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (2003) online; Bremer, Francis J. "John Winthrop and the Shaping of New England History." Massachusetts Historical Review 18 (2016): 1–17.