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How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention deal with slavery?
By counting 60% of slaves for the purposes of representation and taxes. All delegates to the Convention recognized that this was an imperfect compromise to a difficult issue, but many of the delegates redesigning American government didn't want to deal with slavery at all. by counting 60% for all slaves--APEX
How did the Constitutional Convention deal with slavery?
The Constitutional Convention dealt with slavery issue in a conclusive manner. The addressed the rights of the slaves and their right to own property among other contentious issues.
How did the compromise of 1850 attempt to deal with the most difficult issued concerning slavery?
The South wanted to count slaves a people but not give them any rights. The North was more for rights, but if no rights, then no count. The government (House of Representatives) is filled by counting people in the State. So the compromise agreed upon fractionally counted Slaves as people with rights. Didn't give slaves any rights, but didn't give the Southern states all the power they wanted.
Not including the amendments how does the constitution deal with the issue of slavery?
Found this: "Originally, the Framers were very careful about avoiding the words "slave" and "slavery" in the text of the Constitution. Instead, they used phrases like "importation of Persons" at Article 1, Section 9 for the slave trade, and "other persons" at Article 1, Section 2 for slaves. Not until the 13th Amendment was slavery mentioned specifically in the Constitution. There the term was used to ensure that there was to be no ambiguity as what exactly the words were eliminating. In the 14th Amendment, the euphemism "other persons" (and the three-fifths value given a slave) was eliminated. The Slavery Topic Page has a lot more detail." From here: http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#slavery
How did the compromise of 1850 contribute to the beginning of the civil war?
It was an untidy deal that satisfied no-one, and ended up raising the tensions. In exchange for allowing California to be admitted as a free state, the South had to be appeased by the creation of a couple more slave-states, and a promise that runaway slaves in the North would be hunted down and returned to their Southern owners. The Abolitonists, increasingly powerful in Congress, were outraged by this extension of slavery. And slaves on the run began to acquire a mythology, fanned by the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
