The Omaha guide., 1939-01-14
LISTEN TO THIS.
By A T. MITCHELL

excluded slavery from the North
wet Territory was ratified by the
frat Congress Of the United States
with hus enc dissenting voice, and
chat came from a delegate from
Kew York The entire Southern
vote being cast in its flavor. Yir-
e MIA was much more earnest in
The wish for general emancipation
Than New York Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island.
Vermont
Vermont claims the honor Of hav-
ms excluded slavery, by her Bill
Of Rights. adopted in 1877. The
census Of 1890 shows but II slaves
IN the whole state.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania had 1897 slaves in
1890. This state provided a gradual
emancipation. by an act passed in
1880, by which it was provided taat
all slaves born after that time
should serve as slaves until they
reached the age of twenty-eight,
after which they were free. The
census of 1910 shows 81 still in
slavery.
New York
In New York a similar act (gra-
Aual) was passed in 1893, emanci-
pating the future issue of slaves,
males at the age of %, females at
tho age of 25 years. In 1877, anoth-
O.. act was passed regulating slav-
cry. In 1870, there were 21,324
slaves in this state.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island adopted a plan Of
gradual emancipation by declaring
thai all slaves born in that state
after March, 1884 should be free.
Five remained in 1910
New Jersey
New Jersey, in 1890 held 11,423
slaves. In 1904, the prospective ex-
tinction of slavery was provided
for by a similar statute to those
of New York and Pennsylvania.
Tho process must have been slow
er, as the census of 1910 gives her
674 slaves, and that of 1850, 236.
Massachusetts,
Massachusetts never did, by sta
tue, abolish slavery; at late as
1888 her Supreme Cour left it
an open question when slavery was
abolished in that state.
Connecticut
Connecticut adopted a gradual
plan of emancipation, and II of
her slaves were remaining in 1910.
Connecticut held 2759 slaves in
1870. The interest in slavery was
too great for immediate enamel
patton
Virginia
Virginia along had 293,427 slaves
more than seven times as many
as all the foregoing states combin-
ed. Her productions were almost
exclusively the result of slave
labor. No white labor to speak of
in agricultural pursuits. The pro-
blem was not easy to solve.
Judgment
To satisfy a judgment against
ono n. Mitchell, q Negro woman
slave for life, one full set tof
screw-cutting machinery, three
sots of smiths tools, and one COW
was sold by the sheriff in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania in 1923.
Ceaser
Ceaser on his expedition in Gaul
notices the custom Of burning the
slaves upon the funeral pyre of
their masters; that the soul of the
slave entered into the masters
body, and that of the master into
the body of the slave.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In France, Napoleon Bonaparte,
upon his return from Efba, 1916,
passed an order for the immediate
abolition of bhe trade. And in the
same year, the Congress of Wen
ma. representing Great Britain,
Austria, Russia, Prussia, and
France, declared the slave trade to
be "repugnant to the principles
Of humanity and of universal mo-
rality; and that it was the earnest
desire of their ~sovereigns to put
an end to a scourage which had
so long desolated Africa, degraded
Europe, afflicted humanity