Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 71
preferred death. It is tolerablycertain that a table of statistics covering the period from 1793 to1860, would prove that the increase in the number of fugitiveswas directly proportional to the progressive commercializationof slavery. Such a table can never be made up. All we cando is to study the… … The Underground Railroad in Ohio. 49 tory, you may remember that abolitionism early establisheditself in a number of our northern States. The State Constitution of Vermont (not yet admitted tothe Union) in 1777, of Massachusetts in 1780, and of NewHampshire in 1783, abolished slavery; and gradual…
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