The Constitution is a document written in the late 1700's that is supposed to outline how the government should be run, but in that process, the founding fathers had to make many compromises for it to be finalized and for all the states to agree. The main thing that caused there to be so many disagreements was slavery because some states wanted it to continue while others didn’t, which caused them to have to make compromises. The constitution protected slavery because the compromises that were made caused the southern states to only speed up the process of the slave trade instead of outlawing it right away. The reason behind this is that the biggest compromise that was made was that the slave trade couldn’t be outlawed by Congress until 1808, which caused the southern states to trade more slaves at a more rapid pace. My first piece of evidence is the second source which is a passage called “The Constitution and Slavery, Constitutional Rights Foundation” In that text, it states “Extending the slave trade past 1800 brought many slaves to America. South Carolina alone imported 40,000 slaves between 1803 and 1808 (when Congress overwhelmingly voted to end the trade).” This evidence shows that the compromises …show more content…
In the text, it says “first, that the African slave trade. should for at least twenty years be. a national interest under the American flag, and protected by the national arm;” That text is trying to say that the other states had to sort of agree to this because of the southern states being stubborn. They would have been forced into a stand still and the Constitution would have taken years to write if the different states argued back and forth because of their different beliefs. All of the things that were mentioned in the news article benefited the southern states the