The status of slavery in the Northwest Territory is clear. There are no more public slaves in the Northwest Territory of the United States of America.
The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery northwest of the Ohio River.
The Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the territory. However the ordinance did allow for indentured servants to be held in the territory. The US Constitution did not prohibit slavery at that time.
It also said that slavery would not be allowed in states formed from the Northwest Territory.
A federal law titled the Northwest Ordinance, passed in 1787 under the Articles of Confederation, forbade slavery in the Northwest Territory. Because it was a federal territory rather than a state, even at that time it was generally accepted that the national government could control such things there.
Missouri Compromise
Slavery was banned in the Northwest Territory in 1787.
Slavery
The Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery northwest of the Ohio River.
In 1787, Congress banned slavery in the new northwest territory. The territory included the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. By prohibiting slavery in the territory, it made the Ohio River the boundary between slave and non-slave states.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 contained many acts. Act number 6 in the law specifically outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude.
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Yes, the northwest ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the northwest territory.
Slavery
it was in the territory of OHIO!
Slavery was not permitted in the Ohio territory. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which established the Northwest Territory, including what would become Ohio, prohibited slavery in the region.
slavery
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