What colonies utilized slavery?

Answer 1

Slavery in the NorthColonial slavery had a slow start, particularly in the North. The proportion there never got much above 5 percent of the total population. Scholars have speculated as to why, without coming to a definite conclusion. Some surmise that indentured servants were fundamentally better suited to the Northern climate, crops, and tasks at hand; some claim that anti-slavery sentiment provided the explanation. At the time of the American Revolution, fewer than 10 percent of the half million slaves in the thirteen colonies resided in the North, working primarily in agriculture. New York had the greatest number, with just over 20,000. New Jersey had close to 12,000 slaves. Vermont was the first Northern region to abolish slavery when it became an independent republic in 1777. Most of the original Northern colonies implemented a process of gradual emancipation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, requiring the children of slave mothers to remain in servitude for a set period, typically 28 years. Other regions above the Mason-Dixon line ended slavery upon statehood early in the nineteenth century -- Ohio in 1803 and Indiana in 1816, for instance.

Answer 2

All of the American colonies utilized slavery prior to the Independence of the USA from Britain (at which point they were no longer colonies).

The first former colony to abolish it was Massachusetts - at roughly the same time the USA gained independence. The case actually started during the Revolutionary war but the final appeals decision was not issued until 1783.

Answer 3

At one point or another All the colonies had slaves .

Answer 4

South Carolina, North Carolina, Georigia, Virginia

Answer 5

New England colonies