The law originated in 1765, and took some time to be acted on.
By that time, yes, Hutchinson was indeed governor. I forgot to mention one piece.
“England ended the institution of slavery in 1772.”
Not true. England England ended the institution of slavery in England in 1772. And Benjamin Franklin was pissing mad because of it.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-19-02-0128
“Can sweetening our tea, &c. with sugar, be a circumstance of such absolute necessity? Can the petty pleasure thence arising to the taste, compensate for so much misery produced among our fellow creatures, and such a constant butchery of the human species by this pestilential detestable traffic in the bodies and souls of men? Pharisaical Britain! to pride thyself in setting free a single Slave that happens to land on thy coasts, while thy Merchants in all thy ports are encouraged by thy laws to continue a commerce whereby so many hundreds of thousands are dragged into a slavery that can scarce be said to end with their lives, since it is entailed on their posterity!”
Benjamin Franklin was correct. That’s the point I was making and will continue to make.
I’m aware MASSACHUSETTS ended slavery ITSELF by the time of the Constitution, but not all of New England.
England ended the institution of slavery in 1772. Massachusetts chose to keep slavery legal until court cases in 1781. Slavery was not completely abolished in the United States until 1865. And somehow England is to blame for decisions made over here?