Attempts+To+Ablolish+Slavery

// Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of chattel[| slavery] that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries after it gained independence and before the end of the American Civil War Slavery had been practiced in British North America from early colonial days, and was recognized in the Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 // http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/
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// Where: // In 1789-1861: Slavery mostly happened in Mississippi, Indian, New Mexico, Arkansas, Georgia and more. As the West was developed for settlement, the Southern states believed they needed to keep a balance between the number of slave and free states, in order to maintain a political balance of power in Congress. The new territories acquired from Britain, France, and Mexico were the subject of major political compromises.

On January 31,1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states”.

john brown