slaves were farmers.
Most white Americans saw slavery as mainly a local issue
slavery became an issue many years before the civil war.
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
The major issue in the era of the democrats between 1800-1860 was slavery and high tariffs.
It is NOT the "civil war". Slavery was a very minor issue at the start of the war.
Because farmers needed slaves to pick cotton, Dumb a$$, did you mean Framers?
America had to deal with slavery and the confederate states. The Confederate States believed that slavery was good for algriculture. But it was so wrong......
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. It gave slaveowners the ability to pursue their escaped slaves into free states and mandated that citizens help in the capture and return of runaway slaves. This law heightened tensions between states supporting and opposing slavery, contributing to the lead-up to the Civil War.
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
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.
Economic reason the farmers in the Constitution avoided the slavery question
No it was not an issue their!