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Slavery and the United States Constitution - Wikipedia Although the original United States Constitution did not contain the words "slave" or "slavery" within its text, it dealt directly with American slavery in at least five of its provisions and indirectly protected the institution elsewhere in the document [1]
What Does the Constitution Say About Enslavement? - ThoughtCo The Constitution did not originally use the word 'slavery,' but addressed it through indirect terms and clauses The Three-Fifths Compromise counted enslaved individuals as three-fifths of a person for congressional representation
What did the Constitution say about slavery in 1787? What did the original Constitution say about slavery? The specific clauses of the Constitution related to slavery were the Three-Fifths Clause, the ban on Congress ending the slave trade for twenty years, the fugitive slave clause, and the slave insurrections
US Constitution on Slavery (1787) – Knowledge for Freedom seminar The original US Constitution, adopted in Philadelphia in September 1787 and ratified in the spring of 1788, addressed the issue of slavery in several ways but never mentioned the word itself even once
Slavery and the Constitution - American Battlefield Trust Even as they compromised on issues surrounding slavery and declined to outlaw the practice during the Constitutional Convention, delegates recognized that they were not dealing with slavery and letting the moral issue fester and grow
Historical Context: The Constitution and Slavery The framers of the Constitution believed that concessions on slavery were the price for the support of southern delegates for a strong central government They were convinced that if the Constitution restricted the slave trade, South Carolina and Georgia would refuse to join the Union
US Constitution Slavery - Bill of Rights Institute The Constitution did not end slavery, which continued to grow and spread in the South at the same time it receded in the North However, the Constitution did not protect a property in man, nor did it provide for national validation of the institution
Slavery and the Constitution Briefing Document To begin to think through our big question, let’s start—as we always do when interpreting the Constitution— with the Constitution’s text There are many parts of the original Constitution that touch on the issue of slavery Here are some of the big ones: