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But in the only territories at this time belonging to the nation, the broad region of the Northwest, it was already made impossible, by the Ordinance of Freedom, even before the adoption of the Constitution.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But in the only territories at this time belonging to the nation, the broad region of the Northwest, it was already made…”
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Sumner asserts that slavery was prohibited in the Northwest territories due to the Ordinance of Freedom.
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