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Abolition
of Slavery in Pennsylvania
Flag
of Pennsylvania
2005
was the 225th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In
1770 the legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
— the General Assembly —
had passed legislation prohibiting the
importation of slaves, but this was disallowed by the
Privy Council in London.
In 1701, when the General Assembly passed legislation imposing duty of £20 on
every slave imported —
thereby making it uneconomic to import slaves — the
legislation was again disallowed by London.
In
1780 the General Assembly enacted an Act to abolish slavery
in respect of people who were born in the future and
provided for the gradual abolition in respect of
existing slaves.
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A
copy of the early constitution of Vermont can be found
at: The
Avalon Project of the Yale Law School.
Links
to pages dealing with the abolition of slavery in the
USA:
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Uncle
Tom's Cabin
Abraham
Lincoln
American
Civil War
13th
Amendment to the Bill of Rights
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Anti-Slavery Society
Vermont
Virgin
Islands
Links
to pages dealing with the abolition of slavery in other
countries:
British
campaign against slavery
Sir
Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1846)
Thomas
Clarkson (1760-1845)
Denmark
Peter
Van Scholten
Granville
Sharp (1735-1813)
Slave
Trade Act 1807
Slave
Trade Act 1824
Slave
Trade Act 1843
Slavery
Abolition Act 1833
Joseph
Sturge (1793-1859)
William
Wilberforce (1759-1833)
Links
to other pages dealing with slavery:
Does
slavery still exist?
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