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African Americans in Indiana

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Many of the earliest white settlers in Indiana brought their slaves from southern slave states. Upon the establishment of the Indiana Territory in 1800, proslavery political figures, such as Governor William Henry Harrison, passed laws circumventing the slavery ban in the Northwest Ordinance and limiting the rights of all African Americans in the Territory.

In 2010, the Census Bureau recorded that 591,397 individuals in Indiana identified themselves solely as black, without any other racial background.

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