Abstract
Missouri was a part of the Louisiana Purchase Territory secured from France in 1803. Missouri, and perhaps all of this territory were placed immediately under the authority of the Governor of the Indiana Territory, and remained under this jurisdiction for some time.' Very soon after this, as early as 1804, we find many laws enacted by the Governor and Judges of Indiana Territory, authorized and empowered by an act of Congress to make laws for the District of Louisiana, which were specifically designed to keep the Negro in, subjection. From this time on to the close of the Civil War it is doubtful if any legislature governing Missouri ever met without giving abundant time to the consideration and making of laws governing the conduct and status of Negroes as to travel, ownership of property, residence, and rights before the law.
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