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Indiana's Constitutional Convention bans all free Black and mixed-race people from living in the territory.

1850

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Additionally, the convention stipulates that white people employing Black people will be fined, and that free African-American citizens already living in the territory will be offered $50 to leave. This law is passed at the same time as wetlands are drained in northern and central Indiana, where many formerly enslaved Black folk had settled.