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"Slave Conspiracies in North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 5.1 (1928): 20–34. online; Vollmers, Gloria. "Industrial slavery in the United States: the North Carolina turpentine industry 1849–61." Accounting, Business & Financial History 13.3 (2003): 369–392. Yanuck, Julius. "Thomas Ruffin and North Carolina Slave Law."
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions including the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the 1808 Act Prohibiting ...
In the first two decades after the American Revolution, state legislatures and individuals took actions to free slaves. Northern states passed new constitutions that contained language about equal rights or specifically abolished slavery; some states, such as New York and New Jersey, where slavery was more widespread, passed laws by the end of ...
The United States experienced divisions between slave states in the South and free states in the North. At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states, all of which had slave codes. The 19 free states did not have slave codes, although they still had laws regarding ...
By 1855, John Swanson Jacobs had fled slavery in North Carolina, escaped on a whaling ship, circled the globe from Peru to Alaska, tried his hand at gold mining and — in his spare time ...
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The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...