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Declaration of Independence
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Virginia's Declaration of rights
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Remonstrances of Parlement of Paris against Turgot’s Six Edicts
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The Republic of Vermont, an independent country at the time, prohibits slavery in its constitution
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The Virginia legislature passes a law, with Thomas Jefferson's support and probably authorship, that bans importing slaves into Virginia. It is the first state to ban the slave trade, and all other states eventually followed
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Franco-American Alliance, France declares war on Great Britain
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Affair of the Diamond Necklace
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Congress re-adopts the Northwest Ordinance under the Constitution
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Calonne presents reform proposals to King Louis
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George Washington writes: "There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it [slavery]."
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Exile of parlements of Paris and Bordeaux
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Linguet, "Attack on the Nobility" from Annales politiques
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Kentucky draws up a constitution as a slave state and is admitted to the union
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Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 based on Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution
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New Jersey enacts a law that provides for gradual abolition of slavery. All states north of the "Mason-Dixon Line" (the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania) have now abolished or provided for the gradual abolition of slavery within their boundaries