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Type your answer here... this is erroneous. In 1776, the second continentalcongress approved a resolution to ban the slave trade not slavery itself.

During the 1780s, Congress took up the issue of slavery in the western portions of the young country that were not yet states of the Union. The outcome was a compromise. Under the Northwest Ortdinance, slavery was forbidden in the entire region then called the northwest between the Mississippi and the northern banks of the Ohio.

South of the Ohio, beginning with Tennessee and Kentucky, slavery would continue to exist. The Congress debated a resolution that would have banned the institution from the whole of the west, but in the end, the resolution failed to muster the 9 state delegations needed for adoption, falling short by a single state

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