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; Slaves and slavery are mentioned only indirectly in the 1787 Constitution for example Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3 prescribes that "three fifths of all other Persons" are to be counted for the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and direct taxes Additionally in Article 4 Section 2 Clause 3 slaves are referred to as "persons held in service or labor" the Founding Fathers however did make important efforts to contain slavery Many Northern states had adopted legislation to end or significantly reduce slavery during and after the American Revolution in 1782 Virginia passed a manumission law that allowed slave owners to free their slaves by will or deed. As a result thousands of slaves were manumitted in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson in 1784 proposed to ban slavery in all the Western Territories which failed to pass Congress by one vote. Partially following Jefferson's plan Congress did ban slavery in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for lands north of the Ohio River, 6.1.1 Citizens and representatives 1990 86.2% 140,011 11.5% 18,653 The Potomac River in Washington D.C with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn Arlington Virginia in the background. See also: Federalist Party Annapolis Convention (1786) and United States Bill of Rights, the Missouri Compromise 1821 Prigg v Pennsylvania. . ! . .

In the closing months of the war the British evacuated 20,000 freedmen from major coastal cities transporting more than 3,000 for resettlement in Nova Scotia where they were registered as Black Loyalists and eventually granted land They transported others to the Caribbean islands and some to England, Many slaves used the very disruption of war to escape their plantations and fade into cities or woods for instance in South Carolina nearly 25,000 slaves (30% of the total enslaved population) fled migrated or died during the war.[further explanation needed] Throughout the South losses of slaves were high with many due to escapes. Slaves also escaped throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic joining the British who had occupied New York! 10.1 France and Spain Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry William Few Georgia 1 Yes A statute enacted as part of the compromise prohibited the slave trade but allowed slavery itself in the District of Columbia. Southerners in Congress were unanimous in opposing that provision which was seen as a concession to the abolitionists but they were outvoted. Washington did not have the formal education that his elder brothers received at Appleby Grammar School in England but he did learn mathematics trigonometry and surveying and he was talented in draftsmanship and map-making by early adulthood he was writing with "considerable force" and "precision." However his writing displayed little wit or humor As a young man in pursuit of admiration status and power he had a tendency to attribute his shortcomings and failures on someone else's ineffectuality.