. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. d the age of 25. A similar act, in 1797,liberated all that were born thereafter, at the age of 21. The census of1840 gave a total of fifty-four slaves in the State. Slavery was finallyabolished in 1848 without compensation to the owners. The manner in which slavery ceased in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,Georgia and the Carolinas, as well as in the other States of more recentbirth than the original Thirteen, is foreign to the scope of this paper. Al-though New York did not foresee the inevitable, and act upon that visionas early as four
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. d the age of 25. A similar act, in 1797,liberated all that were born thereafter, at the age of 21. The census of1840 gave a total of fifty-four slaves in the State. Slavery was finallyabolished in 1848 without compensation to the owners. The manner in which slavery ceased in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,Georgia and the Carolinas, as well as in the other States of more recentbirth than the original Thirteen, is foreign to the scope of this paper. Al-though New York did not foresee the inevitable, and act upon that visionas early as four of her sister States, yet she must have the credit of volun-tarily doing away with slavery seven years before the agitations of Wilber-force led the British Parliament to pay twenty millions sterling as theprice of emancipating 800,000 slaves in the West Indies ; nineteen yearsbefore the institution ceased in New Jersey; twenty-one years before it hadan end in Connecticut, and thirty-six years before the American Republicwas free within all its
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