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Adult slavery was abolished in Vermont in July 1777 by a provision in the Constitution of Vermont that male slaves become free at the age of 21 and females at the age of 18. However, violations of the law against adult slavery were not unusual. Chapter I of the Constitution, titled "A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont" said:
The state of Vermont was created in 1777 by politicians of that state to defy New York, which claimed the territory under of a grant by King Charles II in 1664, and reaffirmed by King George III in 1764. After 1777, Vermont was repeatedly denied admission to the Union and existed as a largely unrecognized state until it was fully recognized and admitted to the Union as the fourteenth state in 1791. The consequence for slavery of Vermont's admission to the Union was that Vermont became subject to the requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793Constitution of the United States that fugitive slaves from other states could be recovered by the owner. The state government was required to cooperate under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Harvey Amani Whitfield's book, ''The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont'', reports that among those violating the abolition of slavery were Vermont Supreme Court Judge Stephen Jacob and Levi Allen, brother of the military leader Ethan Allen.〔Harvey Amani Whitfield, ''The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont'', Vermont Historical Society (2014)〕 The 1790 census counted 16 slaves in Vermont, all in Bennington County. In 1870, the chief clerk of the Census Bureau, who was from Vermont, changed the reported status of the 16 to "Free Other", alleging that the original report was a mistake. Whether it was really a mistake is a matter of some dispute.〔 The 1790 census of the United States did not reach Vermont until the following year, 1791, because the government of Vermont took the position that Vermont was not a part of the United States until its admission to the Union in that year. == Notes and references == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slavery in Vermont」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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