Was illinois a slave state?

Best Answer: Human slavery had been installed within the borders of what now is the state of Illinois by the early French colonizers in the eighteenth century. Amazingly, the institution was never legally abolished before 1818 under French, British, or American administrations. read more

Illinois . Michigan . Ohio . Pennsylvania . New York . Vermont . Maine . New Hampshire . Massachusetts . Rhode Island . Connecticut . New Jersey The rest weren't organized enough to be considered slave states or free states. Montana was not a slave state or a state of any kind during the Civil War. Missouri, however, was a Slave State that did not secede. read more

While Illinois' first state constitution in 1818 stated that slavery shall not be "thereafter introduced", slavery was still tolerated in the early years of Illinois statehood, and the constitution did not have a clause forbidding its amendment to allow slavery. read more