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An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1780, Pennsylvania State Archives. An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, passed by the Fifth Pennsylvania General Assembly on 1 March 1780, prescribed an end for slavery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the ...
During the American Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition Act (1780), the first such law in the new United States. Pennsylvania law freed those children born to enslaved mothers after that date. They had to serve lengthy indentured servitude until age 28 before becoming free as adults.
Pennsylvania's An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery of 1780 was the first legislative enactment in the United States. [4] It specified that Every Negro and Mulatto child born within the State after the passing of the Act (1780) would be free upon reaching age twenty-eight." [4]
In 1780, Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition Act, which freed all future children of the state's slaves. [a] It also prohibited non-resident slaveholders living in Pennsylvania from holding slaves in the state for longer than six months.
With the 1780 Gradual Abolition Act, Pennsylvania became the first state to establish a process to emancipate slaves. However, no one was freed immediately. The process was to play out over decades and not end until the death of the last person enslaved in Pennsylvania. [13]
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (March 1, 1780) passed by the Pennsylvania legislature - one of the first attempts by a government in the Western Hemisphere to begin an abolition of slavery; Sugarloaf Massacre (September 11, 1780) Pennsylvania Line Mutiny (January 1, 1781)
In 1780, Pennsylvania had passed a law for gradual abolition of slavery, and Tilghman as a justice ruled in several freedom suits. The law required the registration of existing slaves at the time, who were considered "servants for life," and of children born in future years to former slave women now considered servants for life.
In 1780, the Pennsylvania legislature ratified "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery", [5] which effectively abolished the importation of future enslaved people to Pennsylvania, and granted children born into slavery after its enactment freedom at age 28. [6]