Miami (/maÉªËÃ¦mi/; Spanish pronunciation: [maiËami]) is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Florida.
The Politics of Slavery. 1  The 1816 Indiana Constitution forbade slavery in Article 8, sec. 1 and Article 11, sec. 7. Source: The full text of the 1816 Indiana Constitution is available at âRoad to Indiana Statehood,â The Digital Collections of IUPUI University Library at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/ISC .
At the time the United States Constitution was drafted, where in the world was slavery illegal? Answer Wiki. What makes slavery illegal is a law forbidding it. So you're really asking - what governments had abolished slavery - by law - in 1787 when the U.S. Constitution was written. I can't find information that would contradict what the other poster wrote. Japan - 1590. England and Wales, Portugal, Vermont.