I believe Vermont was the first, period (unless you count the Somerset case in Britain). Though slavery had died out in various other places before that without a legal ban, and had been limited by laws in various places & ways before 1777.https://twitter.com/Tracinski/status/1231690062448021510 …
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Pennsylvania was 1780. I'm not aware of a municipal ban before that, have I missed something?
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I was taught the abolitionist movement began in Philadelphia, and it happened before the revolutionary war, but I could be wrong.
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Yes, that's correct, the popular movement did. It dates back to the 1750s-60s. It just didn't change the law until 1780.
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