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Was the Constitution a proslavery document, as abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison claimed when he burned the document in 1854 and called it "a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell"? This question still provokes controversy.
12 Ιαν 2021 · It was not long after the federal Constitution was created in 1787 that many antislavery Northerners began labeling it a pro-slavery document. Parts of it did support slavery — the clause...
Collection contains items documenting the sales, escapes, and emancipations of enslaved people from colonial times through the Civil War, and to a lesser extent, materials relating to slavery in the United States dating from the post-emancipation period.
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...
Although the United States Constitution has never contained 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.
25 Μαΐ 2019 · It rendered the Constitution in the eyes of many abolitionists as an irrevocably pro-slavery document. The subsequent fugitive slave laws would sharpen the intent embedded in this clause and would send the nation spiraling into the conflagrations of Civil War.
They hold the Constitution to be a slaveholding instrument, and will not cast a vote or hold office, and denounce all who vote or hold office, no matter how faithfully such persons labour to promote the abolition of slavery.
