The Framers avoided making a decision on whether to abolish slavery mainly because they feared that neither sides (North and South) would ratify the constitution, since the Northern states wanted freedom for African Americans and Southern states wanted slavery.
What the framers wanted when they wrote the constitution
Slavery was a normal thing before.
The Constitution's framers were uncomfortable with the practice of slavery. The word slavery or slaves doe not appear anywhere in the Constitution.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the US prohibited slavery.
The US constitution refers to slavery in Article I, Section 2, named the Enumeration Clause, where representatives are alotted. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery in 1865 when it was passed by the Senate.
They would not have enough state votes to pass the constitution if slavery was outlawed by it. The south would have voted against it.
The Emaciation Proclamation began the end of slavery but it was formally outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
The Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the territory. However the ordinance did allow for indentured servants to be held in the territory. The US Constitution did not prohibit slavery at that time.
Indentured servitude was outlawed in the United States with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution outlawed "slavery" and "involuntary servitude". This was in December 1865. However, slavery still exists in some other parts of the world today.
Slavery was economically and culturally entrenched in the southern states in the late eighteenth century. The southern States would not have supported the ratification of the Constitution if it had called for the end of slavery.