[mac_truck]

Vermont?

What about Vermont? It abolished slavery when it became a [free] state in 1777.

You must have meant Vermouth..or whatever it is you drink for breakfast.

[billbears]

No useless we were speaking of black codes in the north. Please follow along if you're going to interject nonsensical one liners. Vermont's codes, unlike sister union states Illinois, Ohio, and Oregon, didn't ban the existence of blacks outright but they did have other laws against blacks.

Also you may want to look at this. From the Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, even the Vermont representation admits that while slavery was 'abolished' in Vermont, it existed many years later. But heck what could he know? He was just there. I'm sure you've got something to refute eyewitness accounts from a US Representative...

You must have meant Vermouth..or whatever it is you drink for breakfast.

No, I do my best not to emulate the corrupt drunkard that was the 18th President...