Was there slavery in New York, Illinois or California? (I didn’t do so well in history).
I don’t believe it was ever legal in CA. As for NY, I think they followed PA’s lead and phased it out over a short period of time once the Constitution was ratified. The only northeast state to immediately ban it upon ratification of the Constitution was MA.
NY...until 1827. People were still coming to my area in upstate as early as 1815 Upstate from Massachusetts which was a free state.
Was there slavery in New York, Illinois or California?
Slavery was banned in Illinois by the Continental Congress as a part of the Northwest Territory.
New York did have slaves and may have had some at the time of the Civil War. As I understand it, NY had a sort of ‘rolling emancipation’ which freed slaves born after a certain date. Those born before that date remained enslaved.
NOT in WISCONSIN, either
I believe there were a few people held as slaves under the Dutch and pre-1776 New Yorkers. Illinois was a NON-SLAVE state per the Northwest Ordinance under which it, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan were formed and entered statehood. There was NO slavery in California after it became a US territory after the Mexican War of 1846; however, I don’t know if the Spanish rulers of California had slaves pre-1846. If so, some of them were probably the American Indian tribes instead of or in addition to blacks from Africa.