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Yes. It was the first colony to abolish slavery.
how important was the issue of slavery in the first few decades of the American republic
The first American colony to abolish slavery was Vermont. Vermont abolished slavery in 1777 and after this the abolish movement spread.
The American Revolutionary War brought into focus the contradiction between the American battle for liberty and the constitutional monarchy system of the UK. The Americans sought parliamentary representation with regards to taxation which spread into the liberties they came to embrace afterwards.The slavery contradiction was bypassed by the Confederation and became the Framers problem which was not addressed properly or morally. This is especially important based on the relatively small slave population and the population and number of the states seeking the Constitution.
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Vermont was admitted as the first free state.
The first slave arrived in 1619 well before the revolution and the constitution, so there was no president when American slavery began.
quakers wasn't it?
Pennsylvania Quakers.