During 1802, even though there was not many black’s living there at that time, representatives of the first Ohio territorial convention moved to limit blacks’ economic and political opportunities. Although slavery was prohibited in Ohio and other areas, blacks’ still did not have the right to vote. Shorty during 1803, as Ohio became a state the legislators took a course of action to prevent the in-migration of free blacks altogether (Jones, 229). In Indians, the territorial legislature passed a “black law” preventing blacks or Indians form testifying in court against whites. Black families were defenseless to kidnapping in the Northwest Territory. Some of the white men captured free blacks and then sold them as slaves to owners I the South who had plantations (Jones,
During 1802, even though there was not many black’s living there at that time, representatives of the first Ohio territorial convention moved to limit blacks’ economic and political opportunities. Although slavery was prohibited in Ohio and other areas, blacks’ still did not have the right to vote. Shorty during 1803, as Ohio became a state the legislators took a course of action to prevent the in-migration of free blacks altogether (Jones, 229). In Indians, the territorial legislature passed a “black law” preventing blacks or Indians form testifying in court against whites. Black families were defenseless to kidnapping in the Northwest Territory. Some of the white men captured free blacks and then sold them as slaves to owners I the South who had plantations (Jones,