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Slavery petitions and papers

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Source: Original data: Slavery petitions and papers. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894.

Notes:

"Petitions to Congress from Northwest and Indiana Territories for the suspension of the sixth article of compact of the Ordinance of 1787, and the admission of slavery to the territory, together with the counterpetitions, the reports on them and the accompanying documents ... the report of General W. Johnson to the Indiana Legislature in 1808, against the modification of the sixth article, and the opinion of John Johnson in Polly's case."--Introd.
Includes indexes.

Subjects:

Slavery -- Indiana.
Slavery -- Northwest, Old.
Northwest, Old -- History -- 1775-1865.
Indiana -- History.
Indiana
Northwest, Old

Location:

Northwest, Old -- History -- 1775-1865.
Indiana -- History.

Table of Contents

Title page

Front matter

The petition of 1796

Petition of October 1, 1800

Petition of the Vincennes Convention

Legislative petition of Dec. 18, 1805

Memorial from Randolph and St. Clair counties, 1805