Quote by Allen C. Guelzo
““And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery would be permanently illegal there.””
““And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery would be permanently illegal there.””
![“...[at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. It did not lie between the large and small States: it lay between the Northern and Southern.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2a/james-madison-373_constitutional-conve_at-the-constitutional-convention-the-sta_1425365.jpg)
