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Slavery in Florida was theoretically abolished by the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln, though as the state was then part of the Confederacy this had little immediate effect. Slavery in Florida did not end abruptly on one specific day.
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, “except as a punishment for [convicted] crime.” Thus began Florida’s era of Black Codes — a set of laws Southern states passed to limit the economic mobility of Black people, which included sweeping and arbitrary “vagrancy” laws to keep slavery and ...
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Slavery in Florida was theoretically abolished by the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln, though as the state was then part of the Confederacy this had little immediate effect. Slavery in Florida did not end abruptly on one specific day.
Jun 19, 2022 · June 19, 2022 · by Kartik Krishnaiyer · in Florida History · 1 Comment. While slavery was abolished in Florida technically by the Emancipation Proclamation, it was on May 20, 1865 that Emancipation was proclaimed aloud in Tallahassee, the state capital.
Mar 18, 2024 · In 1821, only a small percentage of wealthy white planters, a few free blacks in Eastern Florida and holdovers from the Spanish era owned slaves. When the transatlantic slave trade was abolished, Florida saw a rise in the domestic slave trade.
Apr 6, 2008 · On the eve of the Civil War, Florida was one of the fastest growing slave states in the South and the third to secede after South Carolina and Mississippi. After the war Florida government...
May 20, 2021 · Emancipation didn’t come quickly to Florida during the Civil War. Three years passed between the first time a Union Army commander decreed freedom for any slave here and the day in May 1865 that...
