|
Much of the discussion of the Constitution and slavery athe reader can see here is subjective. Such as a discussion of the two-thirds clause. It is basically the glass half full or half empty question. There re a range of matters that or bjective, based on fact. And of course the woke crowd that diominatesd modern duscourse choses to take the glass half enpty argument. One noted Harvard histortian, Bernard Bailyn, make the definitive factual statement about the Constitutuon and slavery. He points out that before the Constitution was dopted, slaverfy was not a major issue of American diuscourse. After the Constitution was adopted, here never was a time when slasvery was not an important issue. [Bailyn] There are other pertinent matters that are too often ignored by woke histirians and media commebtators. All of which occurred in the ciuntry created bu bthe Coinstitution abd central to this was the First Amendment, the crown jewel of merican democracy with its grarantee of ftree speech.
Much of the discussion of the Constitution and slavery athe reader can see here is subjective. Such as a discussion of the two-thirds clause. It is basically the glass half full or half empty question. There re a range of matters that or bjective, based on fact. And of course the woke crowd that diominatesd modern duscourse choses to take the glass half enpty argument.
One noted Harvard histortian, Bernard Bailyn, make the definitive factual statement about the Constitutuon and slavery. He points out that before the Constitution was adopted, slavery was not a major issue of American diuscourse. After the Constitution was adopted, here never was a time when slasvery was not an important issue. [Bailyn] This is because of the national discource. and as a result, more anfd more Americans bgan to see slaveery as both an evil system a a yhreat to free labor. Abolitonists were a first seen as radical and anti-social. By the time of the Civil War, this had chnged nd most people in the North had come to see slavtfy as a mral evil. This is not to say rcim did not exisdts, but slvefry was sen as a step to far in the North.
There are other pertinent matters that are too often ignored by woke histirians and media commebtators. All of which occurred in the ciuntry created bu bthe Coinstitution abd central to this was the First Amendment, the crown jewel of merican democracy with its grarantee of free speech.
<3>Anti-slsved patrold<.h2>
.
Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site:
[Return to Main Cionstitution and slavery page]
r
[Return to Main American debate on slavery page]
[About Us]
[Introduction]
[Biographies]
[Chronology]
[Clothing]
[Disease and Health]
[Economics]
[Environmental issues]
[Geography]
[History]
[Human Nature]
[Law]
[Nationalism]
[Presidents]
[Religion]
[Royalty]
[Science]
[Social Class]
[Bibliographies]
[Contributions]
[FAQs]
[Glossaries]
[Images]
[Index]
[Links]
[Registration]
[Tools]
[Children in History Home]
Figure 1.--.