The US Constitution side steps the issue of slavery. The writers at the Constitutional Convention did this on purpose in order to ensure a higher chance of the new constitution being passed and also to reduce conflict between convention members. It counts slaves as 1/5 of a person when taking into consideration how many people reside within a state. This number went towards how much representation went to slave states within the House of Representatives.
It failed when it said all men are createed equal and didn't deal with slavery at that moment.
Female suffrage and abolishment of slavery were not original features of the US Constitution.
Female suffrage and abolishment of slavery were not original features of the US Constitution.
Slavery is not included in the Constitution itself, but it is in the Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishes slavery.
What the framers wanted when they wrote the constitution
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Female suffrage and abolishment of slavery were not original features of the US Constitution.
With the 13th amendment to the Constitution,
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the US prohibited slavery.
An article of the US Constitution did not abolish slavery but an amendment, the 13th, did.
In December of 1865, the US amended the US Constitution with the 13th amendment. This abolished slavery in the USA.
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