The American Home Missionary Society in Relation to the Antislavery Controversy in the Old Northwest (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Frederick Irving Kuhns
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781391409931
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Excerpt from The American Home Missionary Society in Relation to the Antislavery Controversy in the Old Northwest As already noted, the indentured service of Negroes had gained full legal status dur ing the territorial period of Illinois history. Although the Constitution of 1818 forbade slavery, yet no guarantee had originally been provided against its amendment so as to sanction its introduction at a later date.10 Self-seeking interests always stood ready to breach the state's constitutional provisions against slavery by taking advantage of the exposed geographical position of Illinois in relation to the bordering slave states of Kentucky and Missouri. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.