[30]Although slavery was forbidden in the Indiana Territory by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, government officials and army officers stationed at Fort Wayne occasionally kept one or two blacks as slaves. This practice existed at other posts and in the case of Fort Snelling, Minnesota led to the series of events behind the famous Dred Scott decision in 1857.
[31]Wilkinson to Major James Bruff, June 18, 1797, American State Papers, Miscellaneous Affairs, Vol. I, p. 586.
[32]General Orders, July 9, 1797, General Orders—General James Wilkinson, 1797-1808 War Department Archives, Old Records Division, Photostat in Burton Historical Collection.
[33]Frances B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization September 29, 1789 to March 2, 1903, I, 557.
[34]Gerard T. Hopkins, A Mission to the Indians from the Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne in 1804, p. 55.
[35]Dearborn to Col. Kingsbury, July 9, 1803, and Dearborn to Burbeck July 20, 1803, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[36]Pike to Kingsbury, June 29, 1803, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[37]Gerard T. Hopkins, op. cit., p. 60.
[38]See below, pp. [p 64
[39]Comte de Volney, op. cit., p. 401.