Slave trade became an important issue during the Constitutional Convention. Southern slaveholders did not want the Congress to take the power over slave trade while controlling foreign affairs. So they only let the Congress have power over trade, excluding slave trade, for next twenty years.
The fundamental issue that was raised at the constitutional convention was slave trade and human rights abuses. Those were the issues that were strife then.
slave trade
Slave trade became an important issue during the Constitutional Convention. Southern slaveholders did not want the Congress to take the power over slave trade while controlling foreign affairs. So they only let the Congress have power over trade, excluding slave trade, for next twenty years.
At the Constitutional Convention, the most significant disagreement dealt with the issue of representation in the legislature. The convention was held in 1787.
Represntation
Constitutional convention deadlocked over the issue of representation. The delegates did not seem to agree on the selection of representatives to the Congress.
The Constitutional Convention said that congress could not ban slave trade until 1808.
The Constitutional Convention
The taxes
Annapolis Convention
control of commerce
Slave Trade