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Abolition
of Slavery in Vermont

Flag
of Vermont
2002
was the 225th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in
the State of Vermont.
It was an independent republic after the American
Revolution: the Commonwealth of Vermont. On 8 July
1777 it adopted a constitution which prohibited slavery.
It
was admitted to the Union in 1791. It thus has the
honor of being both the first sovereign state (as it was
at the time) in modern times and the first State of the
Union to abolish slavery.

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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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