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Race in Ohio 1802-1860
Slavery was abolished in Ohio by the state's original constitution (1802). ... [2] The state had enacted Black Laws in 1804 and 1807 that compelled blacks ...
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Slavery in New York
[1] The company had tried its colonial experiment of New Netherland at first with .... The slave trade became a cornerstone of the New York economy. ...
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Slavery in New Jersey
Free blacks were barred by law from owning land in colonial New Jersey. ... into New Jersey took effect, the institution was dying an economic death. ...
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Slavery in Pennsylvania
But throughout Pennsylvania colony, the children of free blacks, ... Slavery in Pennsylvania had died of the market economy long before Quaker morality ...
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Slavery in New York
By the time the British took over the colony in 1664, slaves sold in New Amsterdam for up ... The slave trade became a cornerstone of the New York economy. ...
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Slavery in Rhode Island
Black slaves were in Rhode Island by 1652, and by the end of that century Rhode Island had become the only New England colony to use slaves for both labor ...
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Slavery in New York
From the 1630s to the 1650s, the WIC "was unquestionably the dominant European slave trader in Africa."[2] In 1644 alone, it bought 6900 captives on the ...
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Slavery in Delaware
Delaware began as New Sweden, an abortive attempt by the Swedes to found a colony on the shores of Delaware Bay in the New World. There were few immigrants ...
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1780 Pennsylvania Emancipation Act
Pennsylvania Emancipation · Race Relations in Pennsylvania .... Enacted into a Law at Philadelphia on Wednesday the first day of March, Anno Domini One ...
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Emancipation in Pennsylvania
EMANCIPATION in PENNSYLVANIA. The labor system in Pennsylvania had shifted in ... children born after 1780, who acquired this status under the state law. ...
