Constitution And Slavery

Way back then when our constitution wasnt scripted or the declaration of independence wasnt established in that location was some amour that was a big part of America which was slaveholding. It affected umpteen people and was a big debate/issue with a lot of people. The framers had a big role in slavery from making laws for it, abolishing it and etc. In my opinion I see slavery was a bad thing in America, so in this essay I will tell you serious facts of slavery.
First off the first slaves came from Africa in 1619 which was brought to Virginia. Slavery was arranging in America that made it legal for whites to buy and confess blacks and use them for labor. Slavery was a state to state thing there were umpteen slave owners and famous slave owners were the Framers withal known as the foot fathers. Something interesting about the founding fathers were they were hypocrites because most of them were a straighten outst slavery when they owned slaves, for mannikin George Washington had many slaves simply he was against slavery.
Another thing to know is that that in the south slaves were considered as three fifths of a person. The south did this to gain political power by raising their population but by doing this they had to pay a higher tax, thats why they only considered them as three fifths of a person.




A three important fact is that the slave trade was terminated in 1808 after the constitutional convention that was from May 25 to folk 17, 1787. People may think the constitution was a ethical thing, it is but towards slavery it was a bad thing because it support slavery. Another document that supported slavery was the Bill Of Rights. An example of how the constitution supported slavery was the fifth amendment which was written by James Madison
stated no person could be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law (Article 5, Amendment 5, Constitution) which meant that slaves could be taken to different parts of America because slaves were considered as prop.
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