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jan 1, 1843 - First in Kansas Territory to oppose slavery

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Wyandot Lucy Armstrong noted that her tribe was “the first in the Territory … to oppose slavery” as the Wyandot council enacted a law forbidding the introduction of slaves into their land in 1843, even as their own people were dying of a measles.

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jan 1, 1843
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~ 183 years ago