Under compensated emancipation, slave owners would grant freedom to enslaved people in exchange for a payment totaling the value of their slaves. Unlike Washington, he never freed his slaves nor did he make provisions to support them.Slavery was not confined to the South. Our Nation has done much to rid itself of the lingering stench of slavery and racial segregation. Slavery, which defined Black people as property, not as citizens, had shaped the United States since its founding. Strangers and travelers and advertise them as runaway slaves unless they could document their status as free people. The suppression and apprehension of runaway slave labor was the object of 1672 legislation. Amdt14.S1.8.7.3Out of Wedlock Births. Amdt14.S1.8. The U.S. Supreme Court issues its ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford. By the early 19th century, slavery had spread to the Ohio River up to the northern panhandle.