This was outlawed in the northwest territory

Considerd one of the most important legislative acts of the confederation congress the northwest ordinance protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories

Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.