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Title: History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Gregg, Thomas, b. 1808. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, C.C. Chapman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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involuntary servi-tude in the said Territory, etc. In 1800 there were in Indiana andIllinois 133 slaves; in 1810 Illinois alone had 168; in 1820, 917,and in 1830, 746. But a large portion of the leading spirits in the Territory weredissatisfied with the provision of the ordinance excluding slavery,and made many attempts to have it repealed. As early as 1796Congress was petitioned to repeal or suspend that provision of theordinance. In 1802 Gov. Harrison and a convention of delegatesmemorialized Congress to the same effect. The subject was refer-red to a special committee, and in 1803 Mr. Randolph, of Virginia,reported adverse to the prayer of the petitioners. The subjectcame up again in 1804, and again in 1807, when it received itsquietus, by a final report against the change. Several court de-cisions have settled the status of slavery under the ordinance. Failing in these efforts, resort was had to indenture, by whichslaves held abroad could be brought to Illinois and indentured for
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HI8T0BT OF ILLINOIS. 113 99 years! Gov. Edwards was a pro-slavery man, and as Governorvetoed legislative acts repealing some of these slavery laws. So among the first questions to agitate the people of the newState after its admission into the Union, was the ever-presentquestion of slavery. Failing to procure its introduction throughthe repeal of the ordinance of 1787, a concerted and determinedeifort was now resolved upon, to reach the desired end by an alter-ation of the Constitution in a sovereign State capacity. On August 20,1821, the Missouri compromise bill having passedCongress, Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave StatC^Immediately a large emigration set in to that State from the slaveStates on the seaboard. The route lay chiefly through the southernend of Illinois. Many of these emigrants belonged to the richerand more intelligent class, and they passed through Illinois withtheir human chattels to seek homes in the new lands of Missouri,where they could hold them u

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