1809
February
Abraham Lincoln is born in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
1800
1808
Congress prohibits the importation of slaves into the United States. Subsequent federal enactments punish persons engaged in the slave trade.
1804
New Jersey passes the last of the Northern gradual emancipation laws, providing that boys will receive freedom at 25 and girls at 21. Thus, by 1804, some form of abolition law had been passed in Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. In Massachusetts, slavery was abolished in 1781 by judicial interpretation of the state constitution.
1800
New Jersey passes the last of the Northern gradual emancipation laws, providing that boys will receive freedom at 25 and girls at 21. Thus, by 1804, some form of abolition law had been passed in Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. In Massachusetts, slavery was abolished in 1781 by judicial interpretation of the state constitution.
Congress prohibits the importation of slaves into the United States. Subsequent federal enactments punish persons engaged in the slave trade.
