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The state of New Mexico abolished slavery on December 6, 1865, when it ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which officially ended slavery in the United States.
Vermont was the first state in the United States to abolish slavery in its constitution in 1777. Other states that never allowed slavery include Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
Slavery was gradually abolished in the border states during the Civil War. Kentucky abolished slavery in 1865 through a state constitutional amendment, while Maryland and Delaware also abolished slavery through state constitutions in 1864 and 1865, respectively. Missouri did not abolish slavery until January 1865 with a new state constitution.
they abolished slavery in the northern united states in 1861 and in the southern united states slavery was abolished in 1865.
New York abolished slavery gradually through a series of legislative acts. The Gradual Emancipation Act of 1799 provided for the gradual phasing out of slavery in the state, and the 1827 Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery completed the process by freeing all remaining enslaved individuals on July 4, 1827.
Delaware abolished slavery in 1865, following the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that officially outlawed slavery in all states.