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Posted on 04/21/2026 12:27:53 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Summary: During the period of the Revolution, slavery was much closer to being banned in America than most people realize.
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But, Jefferson’s statement that King George had vetoed laws (“prostrated his negative”) that American colonies passed to limit slave trade is new information for most modern Americans.
What was Jefferson talking about?
Ben Franklin & Pennsylvania’s Role in Ending Slavery
American Minute ^ | July 26, 2019 | Bill Federer
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3768777/posts
Unfortunately, they needed the Southern states to ratify the Constitution, so they had to compromise.
Christian revivalism, especially in the Northeast on the part of George Whitfield and the like — was largely responsible for turning the tide. As it was in England under William Wilberforce.
The problem was, slavery became entrenched not just in southern economics and politics, but southern theology. To this day the denominational splits represent that legacy. AKA: Methodist vs. Southern Methodist. Baptist vs. Southern Baptist.
Yes and Lincoln's assassination a century later made it so Jim Crow would hold the country back yet again --spurred by Johnson and his carrying out of the Reconstruction.
see, no good deed goes unpunished.
culminating in Southern identity *
Movie looks interesting. Is it the same people who made the recent one on George Whitefield? Several FReepers have raved about it.
George Washington was a example of someone who freed his slaves, was that progressive...or should he have done it sooner... (before his death? I believe it was part of his will?)
Why were slave traders closed on saturdays?
That’s racis’.........
If those delegates could have only seen the future and the impact those people would have on the ruination of this country, there would have not been a single vote to keep slavery.
A number of locations banned slavery, one colony, Georgia in 1735 banned both importation and use of slaves. In the early/mid 17th century, several cities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The King overturned all the bans, after all he had a monopoly on selling slaves in the colonies. By the end of the Revolution slavery had been ended in six northern colonies/States,
Now begins the controversy over colonies vs states.
American history 101
Bear in mind, ALL the colonies had slavery at the time at they seceded from the British Empire and the Northeast was the hub of the slave trade industry for the entire western hemisphere well into the mid 19th century. Its a myth that only the Southern states had slavery or participated in Slavery.
Hmm....for people who were supposedly so anti slavery in the Northeast, they sure didn’t mind slave trading. They also took their good sweet time abolishing slavery with most of them not getting rid of it until the 1840s and 50s. New Jersey didn’t get rid of it until 1866.
It had? Which ones?
New York had slaves until the 1850s
New Jersey had slaves until 1866.
Connecticut had slaves until 1848
Rhode Island had slaves until 1859
New Hampshire had slaves until 1840
Pennsylvania had slaves until the early 1850s
Maryland had slaves until 1866
Delaware had slaves until 1866
There's 8. Add in Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and North Carolina all of which had slaves until 1866. That leaves Massachusetts which got rid of slavery in 1808.
I don’t care
Rhetorically
We’re losing western civilization before our eyes
Any discussion of slavery is most often used as a weapon against the most reliable segments of our culture as viewed from this Paleos perspective
Had the cotton gin not been invented, making cotton production highly profitable, slavery would have been likely abolished in the South much like it was in New York and New Jersey: gradual emancipation, with the children of slaves not becoming slaves at birth. The slave trade was abolished in 1808 by the Constitution, but there were illegal slave importations after that time. If there had been gradual emancipation, slave traders would not have had economic motive to import slaves.
Vermont, Pennsylvanian, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island (1784, close enough). Emancipation, that was gradual in most cases, thus your later dates for a couple of those. Maryland and Delaware were northern slave states, like Missouri, Kentucky and for a while West Virginia, admitted as a slave state.
Indeed.
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