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Interesting, I want to believe you, but while the Constitution was signed in 1787[1], while the first state that partially abolished slavery (PA) did so a few y
by throw10920 5y ago
Interesting, I want to believe you, but while the Constitution was signed in 1787[1], while the first state that partially abolished slavery (PA) did so a few years earlier, in 1780. Was Pennsylvania not necessarily representative of the majority population? (the next few states abolishing slavery definitely come a few years later)
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution/#:~:text=On%20September%2017%2C%201787%2C%2039,slavery%20and%20the%20slave%20trade https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-governm....
[2] https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2012/12/before-there-were-red-and-blue-states-there-were-free-states-and-slave-states/comment-page-1/#:~:text=In%201780%2C%20Pennsylvania%20became%20the,by%20judicial%20decree%20in%201783 https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2012/12/before-there-w....