At the Constitutional Convention, Delegate James Madison, of the Commonwealth of Virginia—a slave owner—argues against putting the words “slave” and “slavery” in the proposed Constitution for the united States, as it would be “wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.”
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Authority:
Articles of Confederation, Article XIII
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References:
Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997), 188.
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