With one significant exception - strengthening the federal power to return escaped fugitive slaves - the Constitution was an improvement for the anti-slavery cause compared to the Articles of Confederation.
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Virtually every other complaint about the document assumes it was written in a vacuum rather than as a replacement for a system with a weak federal government utterly incapable of action without the consent of the major states where slavery was long entrenched.
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I've explained before why it was significant for the abolition of slavery in the states that the original Constitution banned states from interfering with contracts, but not with property rightshttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/founding-era-antislavery-and-the-overheated-freakout-over-tom-cottons-history-of-slavery/ …
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The constitution isn't the reason there was slavery, but it was definitely the reason we were able to end slavery.
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