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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.
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 ...
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
Ledger of sale of 118 slaves, Charleston, South Carolina, c. 1754. In 1735, the Georgia Trustees enacted a law prohibiting slavery in the new colony, which had been established in 1733 to enable the "worthy poor", as well as persecuted European Protestants, to have a new start. Slavery was then legal in the other 12 English colonies.
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.
Johnson, who traveled to South Carolina and North Carolina in April 2024 to research her family history, said Mills and her husband Jerry were born into slavery and was able to locate the house in ...
All the other Northern states abolished slavery between 1780 and 1804, leaving the slave states of the South as defenders of the "peculiar institution". Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1780, and several other Northern states adopted gradual emancipation. In 1804, New Jersey became the last original Northern state to embark on gradual ...
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.