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Few pubuc issues during the antebellum years caused as much excitement among the people of the western states and territories as attempts to legalize slavery within their borders. Although the struggle between the pro and antislavery forces in Kansas received national attention, demands for Negro servitude in California in 1849 and in Oregon in 1857 produced controversy among the people in those states. Earlier, bondage had been advocated in Indiana and Illinois and agitation for the institution did not cease until the 1820's. While slavery was rejected in all of these states for various reasons, the antagonism which many white people felt toward the Negro race played a significant role in influencing their decisions to prohibit their entry, either as slaves or free men. The most prolonged effort to establish a bondage system occurred in Indiana and Illinois. From 1796 to 1807 the Indiana territorial legislature or individual groups petitioned Congress to repeal the slavery restriction clause of the Northwest Ordinance; all of the petitions were ignored or rejected. Thereupon, proslavery settlers, believing that forced labor would hasten the development of the territories, persuade

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Author

Eugene H. Berwanger

Publisher

Project MUSE; Kent State University (ISSN 1533-6271)

Published

1966

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences