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Pennsylvania's government was the first to begin a gradual abolition of slavery, prohibiting the further importation of slaves in 1780, and declaring that all FUTURE children would be born free. But those slaves already in the state remained enslaved for life.

The 1790 Census listed 3,737 slaves, 0.86% of the state's total population of 434,373.

Legal slavery didn't end in Pennsylvania until 1847, when the fewer than 100 surviving slaves (the youngest age 67) were finally freed.

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