In a message dated 9/1/00 3:36:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, phssra@physics.emory.edu writes: << Slavery was practiced in all of the colonies, irrespective of the Mason-Dixon line. It was only outlawed in the Northern states between 1777 and 1804. This was easier for them to accomplish because slavery was not as interwined in their economies as it was in the South. >> Hi, Do you by chance know how far north and west slavery was used? Mary Jane, Brightstar