AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Manumission, Methodism
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Slavery: started to fall apart in the north for a variety of reasons years after the revolution, children would continue to be enslaved even if their parents gained their freedom. Elizabeth freeman: massachusetts she heard the constitution being read and decided that means she should not be a slave. She hired an attorney and sued for being a slave and won. Gradual emancipation: each new state wrote their own constitutions. States in the north generally started outlawing slavery, but with exceptions. Like you could have your freedom only after a certain age. Manumission: slavery started to fall apart in the south as well years after the american revolution. Manumission was owners deciding their slaves were free. Could be done through a will, or by a living owner writing that they had their freedom in a document: by 1810"s manumission was over because the america was expanding westward, which means that slavery was expanding west.
