In 1816, part of the Indiana territory located in the Northwest Territory, population was finally large enough to become a state. According to the governing Northwest Territory Ordiance, the Indiana Constitution was required to have a provision which forbid slavery and indentured servitude. The language did not outlawed slavery, but forbid the growth of slavery in order to become a state.
In essence, the reason for banning slavery was not out of sympathy towards enslaved African-Americans. The ban was to discourage settlers from bringing more African-Americans into the Northwest. George Washington's, the surveyor,dream was for this place where Indians gave him a fit, a place for raced white males to govern without British rule or slave product. Read more click here.
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