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Thomas Edison was born in New Jersey in 1847, which means he was 16 when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law. Additionally, New Jersey had outlawed slavery the year before his birth, 1846. His young age at the end of slavery in the US combined with the state in which he was raised having been a Free State all his life, leads me to the conclusion that Thomas Alva Edison never owned any slaves.
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Where did Thomas Edison grow up?
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio and lived there until he was seven. His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan and when he turned 16 he went out to live on his own.
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Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.
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It helped them to own their own land for farming -APEX
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