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“Fidelity to the principles of the Constitution was the true foundation of the anti-slavery cause.”
Summary
Among the many challenges to the statesmanship of the framers of the Constitution, none was more fundamental or intractable than the problem of slavery. On August 21 the Constitutional Convention, meeting in Independence Hall in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, officially took up a provision that forbade the Congress they were designing forever to tax or prohibit the importation of slaves anywhere in the United States. Heated discussion erupted immediately.
Resources
- Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America by Thomas G. West
- The American Story Episode 104: Anti-slavery Revolution
- The American Story Episode 105: Anti-slavery Declaration
- The American Story Episode 62: Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
- The American Story Episode 27: The American Dream
- The Constitution of the United States
Credits
- Narrator: Chris Flannery
- Audio Producer: Derek Wood
- Music Supervisor: Blake Huxell
- Music Composer: Brooks Radtke
- Mixing Engineer: Jacob Meyer
