The Old Northwest With a View of the Thirteen Colonies As Constituted By the Ro
The Old Northwest With a View of the Thirteen Colonies As Constituted By the Ro
B a Burke Aaron Hinsdale
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tory Northwest of the River Ohio, with their twelve or thir- teen millions of population ; their material, intellectual, and moral resources ; their vast wealth of achievements and still vaster wealth of possibilities, are the grandest testimonial to the Ordinance of 1787, to the men who framed it, and to the pioneers who laid their foundations. XVIII. SLAVERY IN THE NORTHWEST. THE surprise that historians still continue to express at the ease and celerity with which the Ordinance of 1787 was e...nacted culminates when they come to the sixth article of compact. A few words touching that article will serve as a fitting introduction to an account of slavery in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. At the close of the Revolutionary War slavery existed in nearly all the States of the Union, but was far stronger in the South than in the North. In the one section the causes were already at work that ere long brought about its abolishment ; in the other, the causes had not yet begun to operate that, in the end, practically united all the people in defence of slavery.
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