English: Animation showing which areas of the United States did and did not allow slavery between 1789 and Lincoln's inauguration in 1861. The animation includes a 5 second frame on 1789, 1800, 1821, 1837, The unrealized 1846 Wilmot Proviso, 1846, 1858, and 1861. The map colorings of some areas require further comment. New York (1799) and New Jersey (1804) adopted laws gradually freeing enslaved people, but some people in these states remained enslaved until 1824 (NY) and 1865 (NJ). Territories and states which had not specifically banned slavery are colored red/pink.
Individual frames are also up in Wikimedia and available here:
2006-07-29T07:02:50Z Golbez 1000x677 (106000 Bytes) {{Information| |Description=Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from |Source= |Date= |Author=Made by [[User:Golbez]]. |Permission=Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creat
2006-07-29T07:03:55Z Golbez 1000x677 (108035 Bytes) {{Information| |Description=Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from |Source= |Date= |Author=Made by [[User:Golbez]]. |Permission=Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creat
2006-07-29T07:04:23Z Golbez 1000x677 (109217 Bytes) {{Information| |Description=Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from |Source= |Date= |Author=Made by [[User:Golbez]]. |Permission=Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creat
2006-07-29T07:04:35Z Golbez 1000x677 (103822 Bytes) {{Information| |Description=Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from |Source= |Date= |Author=Made by [[User:Golbez]]. |Permission=Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creat
2006-07-29T07:04:42Z Golbez 1000x677 (89268 Bytes) {{Information| |Description=Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from |Source= |Date= |Author=Made by [[User:Golbez]]. |Permission=Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creat
2006-07-29T07:05:06Z Golbez 1000x677 (105099 Bytes) {{Information| |Description=Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from |Source= |Date= |Author=Made by [[User:Golbez]]. |Permission=Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creat
2006-07-29T07:05:14Z Golbez 1000x677 (115124 Bytes) {{Information| |Description=Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from |Source= |Date= |Author=Made by [[User:Golbez]]. |Permission=Own work, attribution required (Multi-license with GFDL and Creat
{{Information |Description= Animation showing which areas of the United States did and did not allow slavery between 1789 and Lincoln's inauguration in 1861. The animation includes a 5 second frame on 1789, 1800, 1821, 1837, The unrealized 1846 Wilmot Pro