The Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania was passed in 1780. It declared that any child born in Pennsylvania after 1780 to an enslaved mother would be freed upon reaching adulthood. This act marked a step towards the eventual abolition of slavery in the state.
The law passed by Pennsylvania in 1780 was the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery. This law began the process of gradual emancipation by ensuring children born to enslaved mothers after its enactment would be freed once they reached a certain age.
'An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery', passed on March 01, 1780.
How did the massachusetts state constitution 1780 differ from most of the other state constituions?
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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.
Vermont was a territory that abolished slavery in 1777, but technically Pennsylvania was the first STATE to abolish slavery, doing so in 1780.
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August 30, 1780
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Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery.