Assertion: u.s.'s state | /r/CapableOf | abolish slavery
Facets:
value: by 1804
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Inspired by revolutionary ideals of the equality of men and influenced by their lesser economic reliance on slavery, northern states abolished slavery.
text: By 1804, the northern states (north of the Mason–Dixon line) had abolished slavery.
text: Haiti became the first modern state to abolish slavery, the first state in the world to be formed from a successful revolt of the lower classes (in this case slaves), and the second republic in the Western Hemisphere, only twenty-eight years behind the United States (Reinhardt 247).