January 1712

Following the 1712 revolt, New York enacted laws making manumission nearly impossible by requiring freed people's former enslavers to pay a £200 bond and £20 per year annuity. The laws also restricted enslaved people from gathering in groups of more than three. Fear of rebellion was used to justify permanent restrictions on all Black New Yorkers, free and enslaved.

Pennsylvania, under Quaker influence, imposed a prohibitive import duty on enslaved people in 1712, effectively limiting the growth of slavery in the colony. The law reflected ongoing Quaker moral pressure following the 1688 Germantown petition. While not abolition, it created conditions under which Pennsylvania had a smaller enslaved population than its Southern counterparts and Quaker abolitionists had more social leverage.