Which of the 13 colonies had slaves?
I just would like to know which states out of the 13 colonies had slaves.
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During colonial times, all of the 13 colonies had slaves at one time or another. However, it does distort things to think of the Middle region and New England region as "slave" regions.
The Southern region used slave labor throughout the colonial times. Slavery was a very big part of the culture and economy. The Southern region was made up of Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
At the time the colonies were founded slavery was legal in every one of them. It is true that colonies in the South (especially South Carolina) had way more slaves than did the Northern colonies. However, it is not true that any of the Northern colonies had actually banned slavery.
At the time that the Constitution was passed in 1789, five northeastern states had banned slavery, but slavery remained legal in the other eight states.
Vermont was the first state to actually ban slavery, doing so in 1777 before the Revolutionary War had actually ended. Please see the "slavenorth.com" link for the years in which each of the Northern states banned slavery.
The Southern and that was about it that is how the Civil War was started the Southern had slaves and the Middle and New England didnt like that so they started the war against it.
northern and southern
im am not completly sure about other colonies but i am positive Pennsylvania did not have slaves. They were called quakers and quakers belived that everyone was equal they were tolerant of the views of others. Though it may have been illegal most of Pennsylvania did not have slaves because they didnt elive in slavery.
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