Vermont was amongst the first places to abolish slavery by constitutional dictum. Although estimates place the number of slaves at 25 in 1770, slavery...

The geologic history of Vermont begins more than 450 million years ago during the Cambrian and Devonian periods. Human history of Native American settlement...

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many...

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institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America...

historian examines Vermont's mixed history of slavery and abolition". Harvey Amani Whitfield, The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, Vermont Historical Society...

as "Slave" in Bennington County. See the history of slavery in Vermont. Corrected figures are 85,425, or 114 less than figures published in 1790, due to...

own consent." This was the first such ban on slavery in the New World. See also History of slavery in Vermont. The second article declared that "private...

Slavery in South Carolina was widespread and systemic even when compared to other slave states. From the Pickney cousins at the 1787 Constitutional Convention...

of George Bryan. It followed Vermont's abolition of slavery in its constitution of 1777. The Pennsylvania law ended slavery through gradual emancipation...