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| | Vermont Personal Liberty Law (1858) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | No person within this State shall be considered as property, or subject, as such, to sale, purchase, ordelivery; nor shall any person, within the limits of this State, at this time, be deprived of liberty or property without due process of law. |
 | | Neither descent near or remote from an African, whether such African is or may have been a slave or not, nor color of skin or complexion, shall disqualify any person from being, or prevent any person from becoming, a citizen of this State, nor deprive such person of the rights and privileges thereof. |
 | | Every person who may have been held as a slave, who shall come, or be brought, or be in this State, with or without the consent of his or her master or mistress, or who shall come, or be brought, or be, involuntarily or in any way in this State, shall be free. |
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