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12 Ιαν 2021 · Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution. By James Oakes. It was not long after the federal Constitution was created in 1787 that many antislavery Northerners began labeling it a...
19 Σεπ 2015 · The Constitution that protected slavery for three generations, until a devastating war and a constitutional amendment changed the game, was actually anti-slavery because it didn’t explicitly ...
In his 1860 speech "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery? ", Frederick Douglass cites the Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 left behind by James Madison in order to describe four provisions of the Constitution that are said to be pro-slavery.
6 Ιουν 2019 · Our view about whether the Constitution hastened abolition may depend on how we understand slavery’s effects in the seventy-five years between the Constitutional Convention and the Emancipation Proclamation.
10 Μαΐ 2022 · With the adoption of the 13th Amendment, the United States found a final constitutional solution to the issue of slavery. The 13th Amendment, along with the 14th and 15th, is one of the trio of Civil War amendments that greatly expanded the civil rights of Americans.
Constitutional Doctrine 1846-1860, 54 J. Ill. Hist Soc. 148 (1961), provides an insightful discussion of the relationship between federalism and pro-slavery theory.
The Constitution gave the federal government the power to put down domestic rebellions, including slave insurrections. The framers of the Constitution believed that concessions on slavery were the price for the support of southern delegates for a strong central government.
