Ebook The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern

Convention assembles at Philadelphia, 1787. Proceedings in reference to the slave basis of representation, the second compromise of the Constitution. — Debat-e. Remarks of Patterson, Wilson, King, Gouverneur Morris, and Sherman — Debate on the Importation Of slaves, by Rutledge, Ellsworth, Sherman, C. Pinckney. Denunciation of slavery by Mason Of Virginia — The thi'rd Compromise, the con tinuance of the African slave-trade for twenty years, and the unrestricted power of Congress to enact Navigation laws.