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[44] Grignon, Seventy-two Years’ Recollections of Wisconsin, in Wisconsin Historical Society Collections, iii, p. 256; Thwaites, Early Western Travels, i, pp. 304, 309. In the present state of Michigan, traces are found of Indians holding others as slaves, though the Ordinance of 1787 forbade slavery in the Northwest Territory. Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society Collections, xiv, p. 658.