“… Article 6. There shall be neither slavery nor

involuntary servitude in the said territory,

otherwise than in the punishment of crimes

whereof the party shall have been duly convicted:

Provided, always, That any person escaping into

the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully

claimed in any one of the original States, such

fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed

to the person claiming his or her labor or service

as aforesaid.…”

— Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Based on this excerpt from the Northwest

Ordinance, which statement is a valid

conclusion?

(1) The issue of slavery was largely ignored

before the Civil War.

(2) Abolitionists had gained control of the

Constitutional Convention.

(3) Slavery was legally banned in the Northwest

Territory.

(4) Enslaved persons had constitutionally

protected civil rights.