Because, quite simply, it was used all around the world as well: before 1800 it was just normal that slavery existed
Massachusetts, one of the cradles of Liberty, was in the North, and at the time of the Civil War- in fact long before it- did not have Slavery.EDIT: CORRECTION...THIS STATE WAS THE FIRST STATE TO HAVE SLAVES AND HAD SLAVERY FOR ABOUT 170 YEARS. WITH INDUSTRIALIZATION AND AN INFLUX OF NEW IMMIGRANTS, THE NOTIONS OF THE PEOPLE CHANGED AND BY 1800 SLAVERY WAS ILLEGAL. There was very little differncce in the work that slaves had to do. In all slave states the slaves were used to do agricultural work, house work, and the various trades.
Massachusetts became the first colony to legalize slavery in what would later become the United States in 1641.
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Yes, Massachusetts did have slavery in the colonial period and early years of statehood. The practice of slavery was abolished in the state through a series of judicial decisions and gradual emancipation laws in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Yes, Massachusetts recognized slavery as a legal institution until the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 1783, in the case of Brom and Bett v. Ashley, that slavery was inconsistent with the state's constitution and was therefore abolished. This decision effectively ended slavery in the state.
there is no slavery in massachusetts
Massachusetts prohibited slavery in 1780
Slavery in Massachusetts was created in 1854.
Georgia was the last colony to legalize slavery in 1798!
Massachusetts was the first U.S. state to abolish slavery, in a 1783 judicial interpretation of its 1780 constitution.
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Massachusetts, one of the cradles of Liberty, was in the North, and at the time of the Civil War- in fact long before it- did not have Slavery.EDIT: CORRECTION...THIS STATE WAS THE FIRST STATE TO HAVE SLAVES AND HAD SLAVERY FOR ABOUT 170 YEARS. WITH INDUSTRIALIZATION AND AN INFLUX OF NEW IMMIGRANTS, THE NOTIONS OF THE PEOPLE CHANGED AND BY 1800 SLAVERY WAS ILLEGAL. There was very little differncce in the work that slaves had to do. In all slave states the slaves were used to do agricultural work, house work, and the various trades.
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