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 .
Slavery was officially abolished in the US by means of the 13th amendment to the constitution, which was enacted in 1865. Since it is now 2013 (as I type) that was 148 years aâ¦go. No one who was a slave in 1865 is still living today. 4 people found this useful.