benjamin frnklin was a founding father because he discovered and invented many things and helped our country be free by king george the third and great britian.
yes he did own slaves on the mount Vernon estate but realized it was wrong, and set them free in his will
The first written account of freeing of slaves is Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery, so I guess you could say they were the first free slaves.
North
The upper southern states were the first to start freeing slaves. The northern states were already free states and didn't need to free any slaves.
They did not want the government to become too powerful.
February i think
To free the slaves to Africa as opposed to the US. The country of Liberia was formed in 1822 by a colonization society in the United States as a homeland for freed slaves. It was the first independent African republic. Monrovia, the country's capital city, was named after U.S. President James Monroe, who arranged for its founding. The name Liberia comes from the Latin phrase which means free land.
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Vermont
Louisiana was the first former Confederatestate which started togradually emancipatethe slaves following its acceptation of Lincoln's "10% Plan".
The state that did not free the slaves was Delaware. Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri did not free slaves either.