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Vermont or Massacusetts
Slavery was prohibited in Vermont on the day of adopting a constitution, i.e. the 8 of July 1777. In their Constitution adapted on 8 July 1777.
Slavery was economically and culturally entrenched in the southern states in the late eighteenth century. The southern States would not have supported the ratification of the Constitution if it had called for the end of slavery.
The first American colony to abolish slavery was Vermont. Vermont abolished slavery in 1777 and after this the abolish movement spread.
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An article of the US Constitution did not abolish slavery but an amendment, the 13th, did.
Vermont or Massacusetts
Vermont was the first colony to abolish slavery in its state constitution in 1777. This made it the first state in North America to abolish slavery.
Vermont is the first to have a Constitution that forbade slavery.
Maryland abolished slavery in 1864 with the passage of the state constitution.
Slavery. It and the 14th and 15th amendments address slavery and voting rights.
In 1865 the US Constitution was amended to abolish slavery. The amendment was the 13th one to the Constitution.
Economic reason the farmers in the Constitution avoided the slavery question
Slavery was prohibited in Vermont on the day of adopting a constitution, i.e. the 8 of July 1777. In their Constitution adapted on 8 July 1777.
The first state to abolish slavery was Illinois.
Massachusetts was the first U.S. state to abolish slavery, in a 1783 judicial interpretation of its 1780 constitution.