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 .
28) In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), Chief Justice Taney declared that. A) the importation of slaves into the United States was illegal, but slavery itself was not. B) Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories. C) a slave who had escaped to a free state became a free man.