Gilded Age · event 2 of 14

1799

Gradual emancipation begins. New York State passes an act for the gradual abolition of slavery. Children born to enslaved mothers after 4 July 1799 are freed, but only after decades of indenture. Slavery in the state ends completely on 4 July 1827.

The Gilded Age era

  1. 30 April 1789
  2. 1799
  3. 1811
  4. 26 October 1825
  5. 16 December 1835
  6. 14 October 1842
  7. 1845
  8. 1857
  9. 13 July 1863
  10. 24 May 1883
  11. 28 October 1886
  12. 12 March 1888
  13. 1 January 1892
  14. 1 January 1898

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