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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]
(From 1777 until early 1791, and hence during all of 1790, Vermont was a de facto independent country whose government took the position that Vermont was not then a part of the United States.) At 17.8 percent, the 1790 census's proportion of slaves to the free population was the highest ever recorded by any census of the United States. [10]
The population of enslaved Americans in Vermont was calculated to be 25 in 1770 according to the United States Census Bureau's Bicentennial Edition Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 [23] [24] and was recorded at 16 in 1790 according to a contemporary study Return of the Whole Number of Persons Within the Several ...
The following year another Anti-Slavery Convention was held in New Hampshire and Miller was one of the speakers, together with William Lloyd Garrison and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, [2] who had also been in London the previous year. [9] Miller died in Montpelier, Vermont, after devoting the end of his life to the abolitionist cause. [3]
The Vermont Republic abolished slavery before any other U.S. state. [9] [10] ... Thomas Chittenden was the Governor in 1778–1789 and in 1790–1791.
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.”
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 ...
In 1807, the slave trade was made illegal throughout the British Empire, though existing slaves in British colonies were not liberated until the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. In the United States, Pennsylvania and Vermont were the first states to abolish slavery, Vermont in 1777 and Pennsylvania in 1780 (Vermont did not join the Union until 1791).