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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]
Pennsylvania abolished slavery in 1780, and about half of the states had abolished slavery by the end of the Revolutionary War or in the first decades of the new country, although this did not always mean that existing slaves became free. Vermont — having declared its independence from Britain in 1777 and thus not being one of the Thirteen ...
An 1854 Vermont Senate report on slavery echoed the Vermont Constitution's first article, on the rights of all men, questioning how a government could favor the rights of one people over another. The report fueled growth of the abolition movement in the state, and in response, a resolution from the Georgia General Assembly authorized the towing ...
Slavery abolished. [70] Vermont: The Constitution of the Vermont Republic partially bans slavery, [70] freeing men over 21 and women older than 18 at the time of its passage. [71] The ban is not strongly enforced. [72] [73] 1778 Scotland: Joseph Knight successfully argues that Scots law cannot support the status of slavery. [74] 1779: British ...
Four other Northern states adopted policies to at least gradually abolish slavery: New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 1783, and Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1784. The Republic of Vermont had already limited slavery in its original constitution (1777), before it joined the United States as the 14th state in 1791.
During the Revolution and in the following years, all states north of Maryland ( the Mason–Dixon line) took steps towards abolishing slavery. In 1777, the Vermont Republic, which was still unrecognized by the United States, passed a state constitution prohibiting slavery.
It read, in part, that its “intent (is) to depict the shameful history of slavery as well as Vermont’s role in the Underground Railway.” But, he said, opposition to the artwork reached a ...
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