So yes your information was bad. And unlike you I have no problem listing sources.
No. Just no. I'm not going to let you get away with that sort of bait and switch. I didn't list sources because I didn't think you would be so foolish as to contradict the truth when you are told the truth.
I thought you would go look up what I told you, find it to be correct, and then avoid making the mistake you have just made.
Let's get something correct. So long as a single person is legally regarded as a slave in a Northern state, the state is still a
slave state. You cannot claim that a state is "free" when people living in it are still in a state of legal bondage. Intentions don't count. That some have been freed also doesn't count. Only when all are freed and the status of "slave" has been declared illegal can you claim to have eliminated slavery in a particular state.
New York:Slavery was still not entirely repealed in the state, because the new law offered an exception, allowing nonresidents to enter New York with slaves for up to nine months, and allowing part-time residents to bring their slaves into the state temporarily. Though few took advantage of it, the "nine-months law" remained on the books until its repeal in 1841, when slavery had become the focus of sectional rivalry and the North was re-defining itself as the "free" region.
Pennsylvania:Rural farmers in Pennsylvania followed the same pattern as Philadelphians, buying up indentured blacks from out of state. The black population of Chester and Delaware counties tripled between 1783 and 1800. Their share of the total population rose from 2.7 percent in 1790 to 6.5 percent in 1820. Some farmers in these places bought slave children in the South, freed them upon entering Pennsylvania as required, and then indentured them to age 28. Families that could not afford slaves could profit from young bound apprentices or servants, and ordinary farmers and artisans in the countryside begin to turn up in the records as owners of black apprentices.
Connecticut:As in other Northern states, gradual emancipation freed no slaves at once. It simply set up slavery for a long-term natural death. Connecticut finally abolished slavery entirely in 1848. The 1800 census counted 951 Connecticut slaves; the number diminished thereafter to 25 in 1830, but then inexplicably rose to 54 in the 1840 census. After that, slaves were no longer counted in censuses for the northern states.
Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Legislature in 1777 tabled a proposal for gradual emancipation. The 1778 draft constitution legally recognized slavery and banned free blacks from voting. It was rejected at the polls, for other reasons. The more liberal state constitution approved two years later contained a bill of rights that declared "all men are born free and equal, and have ... the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberty."
This provided the basis for abolishing slavery in Massachusetts, but it clearly was not the intent of the Legislature to do so. Popular sentiment and the courts were pro-abolition, however. And it was a 1783 judicial decision, interpreting the wording of the 1780 constitution, that brought slavery to an end in Massachusetts.
New Hampshire: A commonly accepted date for the end of slavery in New Hampshire is 1857, when an act was passed stating that "No person, because of decent, should be disqualified from becoming a citizen of the state." The act is interpreted as prohibiting slavery. By a strict interpretation, however, slavery was outlawed only on Dec. 6, 1865, when the 13th amendment went into effect. (Ratified by New Hampshire July 1, 1865.)
New Jersey:In 1830, of the 3,568 Northern blacks who remained slaves, more than two-thirds were in New Jersey. The institution was rapidly declining in the 1830s, but not until 1846 was slavery permanently abolished. At the start of the Civil War, New Jersey citizens owned 18 "apprentices for life" (the federal census listed them as "slaves") -- legal slaves by any name.
Rhode Island:No slaves were emancipated outright. The 1800 census listed 384 slaves, and the number fell gradually to 5 in 1840, after which slaves were no longer counted in the censuses for the state. And, in an essential element of the 1784 compromise, the right of Rhode Island ship-owners to participate in the foreign slave trade was undisturbed.
You can stand by your misguided version of history all you want to...hell you can stand on your head for all I care.
But the fact of the matter is your wrong. And your version of history is wrong.
You need to recheck your history. One of us has an incorrect grasp of it, and it isn't me. I have offered helpful sources to you up above.
You just can't stand to have someone here know more than you.
I have met people who know more than me (in terms of things worth knowing) and I have met people who are smarter than me, but as of yet I have seen no evidence of either sort for quite awhile.
What I can't stand is for people to spread crap that isn't true, especially if it is contrary to the best interests of the Nation.
