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Slavery was NOT legal in every state in the late 1700's. Between 1774 and 1804 all the northern states abolished slavery. In some cases it was immediate, but more often it was gradual, freeing slaves after the passage of the state's emancipation act when they reached a given age. Slavery expanded in the southern states. The spread of cotton production following the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 increased the demand for slave labor.

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Slavery was illegal in Vermont in the late 1700s, being the first state in the United States to abolish it in its constitution in 1777.

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