All the slave states passed laws banning the marriage of whites and black people, so-called anti-miscegenation laws, as did several new free states of the former Northwest Territory, including Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. Indiana and Illinois shared borders with slave states across the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.ts laws served as a model for those passed by other states, beginning with South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana in 1865, and continuing with Florida, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and Arkansas at the beginning of 1866.
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