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 .
The Ordinance, including this measure, was adopted on July 13, 1787. It was the first time the federal government set limits on the expansion of slavery. However, despite this ban, a small number of slaves continued to live in the Northwest Territory, As more people settled the Northwest Territory, some areas tried to get around the ban on slavery.