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PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF SLAVES (Connecticut.) Acts and Laws, Made and passed by the General Court or Assembly of his Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut . . . on the Second Thursday of October . . . 1774. 401-406 pages. Folio unbound; staining. New London: Timothy Green, 1774
Contains printings of 6 laws passed in that session, including prohibiting the importation of slaves. It was the first successful anti-slavery legislation in Connecticut. In 1784, Connecticut would pass legislation to emancipate slaves older than 25. Evans 13209.
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