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Digital History: Slavery and the Slave Trade [Pdf]

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Read reconstructions of debates by delegates to the Constitutional Convention as they attempted to come to terms with slavery, the slave trade, and how to address the issue in the Constitution so all states would be willing to ratify it. [pdf]

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debate about slavery, "peculiar institution", constitutional convention, digital history, delegates to the constitutional convention, issue of slavery in the constitution
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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