--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2008, at 5:05 PM, off_world_beings wrote: > > What are you talking about, off? They never > > > *had* slavery there, or any other northern state.>> > > > > They made it illegal you nut. > > > > Other Northern states did have slaves. > > > > http://www.slavenorth.com/newyork.htm > > > > Sal... another American ignorant of her own history. > > > > > > The few states listed on that site brought some slaves > > over for a few years in the 1600s--Vermont wasn't one > > of them, so, again, there was *nothing* to outlaw.
Vermont did not exist in the 1600's, so no, it could not outlaw slavery in the 1600's "The newly formed state, which broke away from New York, abolished slavery outright in its constitution, dated July 8, 1777. The 1777 constitution entitles Vermont to claim to be the first U.S. state to have abolished slavery." New York to the West had slaves, New Hampshire to the East had slaves. There were slaves in Vermont the day Vermont seceded, and on that day Vermont went out on its own and outlawed slavery. OffWorld
