The Legislative Path to Freedom: New York’s Gradual Abolition Act of 1799
In 1799, the New York State Legislature passed the Gradual Abolition Act, a pivotal piece of legislation in the United States that initiated the slow end of slavery in the…
The Judicial End of Slavery in Massachusetts: The Quock Walker Trials
In the early 1780s, a series of court cases involving Quock Walker led to the effective abolition of slavery in Massachusetts. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the 1780…