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Slavery in the North INTRODUCTION African slavery is so much the outstanding feature of the South, in the unthinking view of it, that people often forget there had been slaves in all the old colonie...

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 from the old world (ma...

SLAVERY in VERMONT The newly formed state, which broke away from New York, abolished slavery outright in its constitution, dated July 8, 1777. The relevant section is Chapter I, subtitled "A DEC...

EMANCIPATION in NEW YORK Most of the Revolutionary leaders who came to power in New York in 1777 had anti-slavery sentiments, yet, as elsewhere in the North, the urgency of the war with Britain made...