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The United States Constitution contains a specific provision that says that the federal government could not outlaw slavery until at least the year 1808.

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Although the Constitution abolished slavery more than a century ago slavery still exists in the world today?

The US Constitution did not initially abolish slavery. In fact it made it clear that for the next twenty years after ratification of the Constitution no law could be passed eliminating slavery and no amendment could be passed to eliminate the constitutional provision that protected slavery for twenty years. The Bill of Rights (technically part of the Constitution) did abolish slavery however. Slavery does still exist in the world today in the form of Human Trafficking.


What was an original feature of the US Constitution?

Female suffrage and abolishment of slavery were not original features of the US Constitution.


What was theThree-fifths compromise?

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a provision of the US Constitution that allowed slave owners to have 3/5 of a vote for every slave they owned. This was removed when slavery was outlawed.


What was not an original feature of the US Constitution?

Female suffrage and abolishment of slavery were not original features of the US Constitution.


What does the US Constitution say about racism?

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 is an original of the US Constitution?

What the framers wanted when they wrote the constitution


How did US Constitution resolve slavery?

It didnt


Who interprets The US Constitution and adds provision?

congress , the president , or supreme court


Was not an original feature of the us Constitution?

Female suffrage and abolishment of slavery were not original features of the US Constitution.


How was slavery abolished in the US?

With the 13th amendment to the Constitution,


It was outlawed by the 13th amendment?

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the US prohibited slavery.

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