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Pennsylvania passed a law of gradual abolition in 1780, freeing slaves when they reached the age of twenty-eight. Massachusetts never formally abolished slavery, but in 1781 its State Supreme Court ruled that slavery was incompatible with the phrase 'All men are born free and equal' in its state constitution.
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