29 mar 1799 año - 16. US NY an act for the gradual abolition of slavery

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After the Revolution, many northern states slowly began to abolish slavery in their regions. Massachusetts enacted general emancipation in 1783 but most of the other northern states did a gradual method that emancipated slaves on a certain future date, or only freed slaves born after a given day.

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