The House of Burgesses was the legislature of the Virginia Colony.
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William Wilberforce
The main constitutional arguements during the debate over slavery were representation in Congress, importation of slaves, and the Bill of Rights.
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He is a crazy person who is weird!! Thomas R. Dew, a young professor at William and Mary College in Virginia, was one of the earliest defenders of the institution of slavery. In the excerpts from his Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832, published in 1832, Dew denied that slavery was unchristian, immoral, or undemocratic. In the years to follow his arguments were supplemented by almost everyone of importance in the South.
The House of Burgesses was the legislature of the Virginia Colony.
This debate was mostly about slavery. It started when John Floyd, Governor of Virginia during the time, stated that in order to prevent another rebellion like Turner's Rebellion(Rebellion of 80 slaves, ended up with 60 white people killed) to not happen again, the slaves needed to be emancipated. Virginia voted against emancipation for the slaves.
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It is the Parliamentary equivalent of the Congressional record, a report of the floor debate of the legislature.
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William Wilberforce
For the most part, the national debate on slavery was not whether to abolish it. Most Americans, especially in the North, did not want slavery to spread to the western frontiers.