no, they said words that refer to the word slave but never just "slave"
13th ammendment
Found this: "Originally, the Framers were very careful about avoiding the words "slave" and "slavery" in the text of the Constitution. Instead, they used phrases like "importation of Persons" at Article 1, Section 9 for the slave trade, and "other persons" at Article 1, Section 2 for slaves. Not until the 13th Amendment was slavery mentioned specifically in the Constitution. There the term was used to ensure that there was to be no ambiguity as what exactly the words were eliminating. In the 14th Amendment, the euphemism "other persons" (and the three-fifths value given a slave) was eliminated. The Slavery Topic Page has a lot more detail." From here: http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#slavery
The constitution should prohibit the states from participating in the international slave trade.
slavery and the slave trade were still legal
never...slavery 1st appeared in the constitution in the 13th amendment
(Slavery)
A slave was 3/4 of a person in the constitution when population was counted for the house.
I got this: "Originally, the Framers were very careful about avoiding the words "slave" and "slavery" in the text of the Constitution. Instead, they used phrases like "importation of Persons" at Article 1, Section 9 for the slave trade, and "other persons" at Article 1, Section 2 for slaves. Not until the 13th Amendment was slavery mentioned specifically in the Constitution. There the term was used to ensure that there was to be no ambiguity as what exactly the words were eliminating. In the 14th Amendment, the euphemism "other persons" (and the three-fifths value given a slave) was eliminated. The Slavery Topic Page has a lot more detail." From here: http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html
slavery and the slave trade were still legal
Slavery and the slave traid were still legal.
The constitution stated that it could not affect the slave trade until 1808. That's pretty much it.
it was part of the constitution that stated that the slave trade was no longer a legal practice. In other words, it outlawed the slave trade, but didn't outlaw slavery as a whole. As a result, people started to import tons of slaves before the clause came into affect.
The farmers decided against abolishing slavery because they would have no one to work in the fields to harvest the crops and it was unheard of for them to do it themselves. In a nut shell they would lose money!
The first slave arrived in 1619 well before the revolution and the constitution, so there was no president when American slavery began.
it is bad
1. The 3/5 clause which says that an enslaved person will only count as 3/5 of a person in the census. 2. ban on middle passage slave trade. 3. fugitive slave clause which says any slave who runs away automatically has to be returned to its owner