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 .
Confidence votes 26. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not abolish slavery-by the time he was born, the slavery of blacks in the U.S. was already illegal. The Thirteenth Amendment put an end to slavery on December 18, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was president.