Timeline Wednesday 1 March 1780

Wednesday 1 March 1780

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Events on Wednesday 1 March 1780 1

1780 Pennsylvania passes gradual abolition act First state law in the US to begin ending slavery On 1 March the Pennsylvania legislature passed An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery. Children born to enslaved mothers would be freed on reaching adulthood. It was among the first such laws in the Western world.