Abolitionism by Shmoop

Abolitionism by Shmoop

Author:Shmoop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: Shmoop
Published: 2010-06-24T04:00:00+00:00


1785

Thomas Jefferson publishes Notes on the State of Virginia, which includes a profoundly ambiguous discussion of slavery. Jefferson describes slavery as a terrible evil, but also argues that emancipation would prove ruinous to American society.

July 13, 1787

In one of its last acts before being replaced by the new government designed by the Constitution, the old Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance, prohibiting slavery in the newly settled territories of the Great Lakes region.



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