Slavery in Massachusetts Mr Moores Reply to His Boston Critics
Slavery in Massachusetts Mr Moores Reply to His Boston Critics
George Henry Moore
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But this is not all. The ttn- ; certainty which prevailed is further illustrated by the reply which Belknap gives in the same document to the direct query of his correspond- ent — "At what peri' d was slavery abolished?" He savs " by comparing what is said ill answer "to queries 4th and 5th, it appears that the com- "plete abolition of slavery may be fixed at the u year 1783. " Ibid, p. 20G. His correspondent also asked in query 5th, "The mode by which "slavery hath been abolished'? Whether by ...a "general and simultaneous emancipation, or at " different periods ? Or whether by declaring all " persons born alter a particular period, free? " The general answer is, that slavery hath been "abolished here by puhlo-k opinion, which 1 egan ■"to be established about thirty years ago. " [17G5] Ibid, p. 201. And yet again, referring to the census, and the fact that no -laves were set down to Massachusetts, he says. " This return [in " 1790] made by the marshal of the district, may "he considered as the formal evidence of tho "abolition of slavery in Massachusetts, esju -daily J « as no person lias appeared to content the legal- 1 " ity of the return" ' Ibid.
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