Mary Bateman Clark
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Mary Bateman Clark was an American woman, born into slavery, who was taken to Indiana Territory. She was forced to become an indentured servant, even though the Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery.
Petition for Clark's freedom filed in Knox Circuit Court, Vincennes, Indiana
Indiana Territory
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The Indiana Territory, officially the Territory of Indiana, was created by an organic act that President John Adams signed into law on May 7, 1800, to form an organized incorporated territory of the U
Mary Bateman Clark
…Mary Bateman Clark (1795–1840) was an American woman, born into slavery, who was taken to Indiana Territory. She was forced to become an indentured servant, even though the Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery. She was sold in 1816, the same year that the…
William Henry Harrison, the 1st Governor of Indiana Territory from 1801 to 1812, and the 9th President of the United States
Anthony Wayne negotiating with the Northwestern Indian Confederacy in the Treaty of Greenville
Grouseland, the home of Governor William Henry Harrison
At Vincennes in 1810, Tecumseh lost his temper when William Henry Harrison refused to rescind the Treaty of Fort Wayne.