Minnesota Communities

	Milestones: Abolition

Source

Document 1

Type

Document

Year

1858

Source

Minnesota State Constitution

Size

36K

The Minnesota State Constitution forbids slavery.

No member of this State shall be disenfranchised, or deprived of any of
the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the
law of the land, or the judgment of his peers. There shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude in the State, otherwise than in the
punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted.