 There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or...  Proceedings and Collections - Page 79by Nebraska State Historical Society - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Iowa. Supreme Court, Eastin Morris - 1870 - 724 pages
...of compact, contained in the ordinance of Congress of 1787. And that "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise...the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted." See 6th article of said compact. 2. That, independent of the articles of... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1870 - 900 pages
...inviolability of contracts and of private property, and declared that " there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." 3. These provisions have been, in substance, incorporated... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1981 - 340 pages
...the people and States in the said Territory." This sixth article read: There shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary Servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; provided always that any person escaping into the... | |
 | Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - 1982 - 233 pages
...after the old Article 5.60 Article 6 of the Ordinance of 1787 stated: There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, OTHERWISE THAN IN THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES WHEREOF THE PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN DULY CONVICTED. Provided, always, That any person escaping into the... | |
 | Robert J. Steinfeld - 1991 - 292 pages
...lllinois, and Wisconsin. The sixth article of the ordinance declared: "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes'" (emphasis supplied). One of the critical questions that legislatures and courts in this territory faced... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1991 - 470 pages
...Northwest Ordinance directly addressed slavery in its last article: There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: provided always, that any person escaping into the... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 pages
...Northwest Territory in the famous Sixth Article of the Ordinance of 1787, "There shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." The form of government which the Southwestern Territory... | |
 | Calvin C. Jillson, Rick K. Wilson - 1994 - 404 pages
...added during the third reading, just prior to final passage, read, "There shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary Servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes" (Journals, 32: 343). Members' surprise that such a provision would pass in a house dominated by southerners... | |
 | Ralph D. Gray, Michael A. Morrison - 1994 - 500 pages
...Northwest Ordinance directly addressed slavery in its last article: There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: provided always, that any person escaping into the... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1995 - 244 pages
...arbitrarily MAKE HIS OWN LAWS to suit himself as would A KING?) Article 6: There shall be NEITHER SLAVERY nor INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: PROVIDED, ALWAYS, That any person escaping into the... | |
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