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During the American Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania passed the Gradual Abolition Act (1780), the first such law in the new United States. Pennsylvania law freed those children born to enslaved mothers after that date. They had to serve lengthy indentured servitude until age 28 before becoming free as adults.
On March 1, 1780, Pennsylvania passed “An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery,” which stopped the importation of slaves into the State, required all slaves to be registered, and established that all children born in the State were free regardless of race or parentage.
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The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and held four meetings. [1]
Pennsylvania officially abolished slavery in 1780. But many black Pennsylvanians were in bondage long after that. How forced labor persisted in Pennsylvania until at least the late 1840s.
By and large Pennsylvania seemed to be far and ahead of its sister states in taking the ideals of the American Revolution and making them into reality. The state abolished its colonial legislature, and created a unicameral (one-house) legislature.
Mar 1, 2024 · On March 1, 1780, by a vote of 34 to 21, the General Assembly passed “An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery.”
Dec 13, 2019 · “Slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania in 1780. No person born after that period can be held in involuntary servitude. All the slaves, therefore, must be over 60 years old and when they die, slavery will become extinct in this state,” the newspaper reported.
