. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . nued. Long ago, in 1829,General John Minor, of Fredericksburg, had introducedinto the legislature a bill for the emancipation of the slaves,which was lost. A bill forbidding further importation ofnegroes into the State had been offered by Mr. Jefferson andpassed; and when Virginia made to the United States themagnificent gift of the Northwest Territory, she had alreadyenacted that no slaves should be carried there, and thusfrom the outset Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, andMichigan were parts of a free territory, and could be admitted O
. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . nued. Long ago, in 1829,General John Minor, of Fredericksburg, had introducedinto the legislature a bill for the emancipation of the slaves,which was lost. A bill forbidding further importation ofnegroes into the State had been offered by Mr. Jefferson andpassed; and when Virginia made to the United States themagnificent gift of the Northwest Territory, she had alreadyenacted that no slaves should be carried there, and thusfrom the outset Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, andMichigan were parts of a free territory, and could be admitted OF Virginia and Virginians 177 into the Union only as free States. Under President Monroe,Liberia was purchased with a view to exporting the negroesand settling them there. Monrovia, its chief town, wasnamed in honor of the President, who was himself a memberof the emancipation of of the prominentslave-holders of the Stategradually freed all theirslaves, while others edu-cated and freed the mostintelligent. Many land-.
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