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Slavery in Indiana occurred between the time of French rule during the late seventeenth century and 1826, with a few traces of slavery afterward. Opposition to slavery began to organize in Indiana around 1805, and in 1809 abolitionists took control of the territorial legislature and overturned many of the laws permitting retaining of slaves.
Decker's slave Harry was freed, and slaves residing in the Northwest Territory become free as per the Ordinance of 1787, and may assert their rights in court. 1820: Polly v. Lasselle: Supreme Court of Indiana: Indiana gave freedom to blacks in the state who had been held as slaves in the territory prior to Indiana's state constitutional ban on ...
Polly Strong (c. 1796 –unknown) was an enslaved woman in the Northwest Territory, in present-day Indiana.She was born after the Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery. . Slavery was prohibited by the Constitution of Indiana in 1
Clark's attorney appealed the decision with the Indiana Supreme Court in the case of Mary Clark v. G.W. Johnston. She won her freedom on November 6, 1821, when the court ruled that servitude violated the state's 1816 Constitution. [7] This was a landmark contract law case for indentured servants and foretold the end of forced labor in Indiana.
The Rhodes family incident was a series of events involving the Rhodes family's escape from slavery in 1837 Missouri. They legally won their freedom from Singleton Vaughn in the 1845 court case Vaughn v. Williams. Vaughn found the family in Hamilton County, Indiana in 1844 and went to court to claim the family as his property. The court found ...
The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of the US Civil War over the issue of slavery, stating that enslaved people could not be citizens, meaning that they couldn’t expect to ...
A small Indiana community looked for ways to remember and honor the teens who were lost. And the two girls' families prayed for answers. News that an arrest had finally been made came on Halloween ...
One was released from prison in 2018 after serving most of a 20-year sentence, one is incarcerated at Michigan City's Indiana State Prison for the rest of his life and one died behind bars in 2019.