3. Article XIII, 1851 Indiana Constitution reads:

Section 1. No negro or mulatto shall come into or settle in the State, after the adoption of this
Constitution.

Section 2. All contracts made with any Negro or Mulatto coming into the State, contrary to the
provisions of the foregoing section, shall be void; and any person who shall employ such
Negro or Mulatto, or otherwise encourage him to remain in the State, shall be fined in any sum
not less than ten dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars. (this means that it was a fined
offense for a white person to do business with a black man, or even encourage a black
man, woman, or child to stay in the state.)

Section 3. All fines which may be collected for a violation of the provisions of this article, or of
any law which may hereafter be passed for the purpose of carrying the same into execution,
shall be set apart and appropriated for the colonization of such Negroes and Mulattoes, and
their descendants, as may be in the State at the adoption of this Constitution, and may be
willing to emigrate. (there was a state government plan to offer black people the
opportunity to repatriate (go back to) Africa, namely the nation of Liberia- the fines
collected by the state for whites and blacks doing business together would pay for this)

Section 4. The General Assembly shall pass laws to carry out the provisions of this article.

a. In your own words tell me why, given the year (1851, nine years before the Civil War)
and Indiana's history with slavery, this law may have been made.