. The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome ; the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. rior to its passage, the stipulation for the delivery offugitives from labor or service, soon after embodied in the Federal Constitu-tion ; and in this shape, the entire ordinance was adopted (July 13th) by aunanimous vote, Georgia and the Carolinas concurring. CHAPTER XXIII. Formation of the Constitution—Slavery Compromises. Convention assembles at Philadel
. The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome ; the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. rior to its passage, the stipulation for the delivery offugitives from labor or service, soon after embodied in the Federal Constitu-tion ; and in this shape, the entire ordinance was adopted (July 13th) by aunanimous vote, Georgia and the Carolinas concurring. CHAPTER XXIII. Formation of the Constitution—Slavery Compromises. Convention assembles at Philadelphia, 1787.—Proceedings in reference to the slave basisof representation, the second compromise of the Constitntion.—Debate.—Remarks ofPatterson, Wilson, King, Gouverneur Morris, and Sherman.—Debate on the Importa-tion of slaves, by Rutledge, Ellsworth, Sherman, C. Pinckney.— Denunciation ofslavery by Mason of Virginia.—The third Compromise, the continuance of the Africanslave-trade for twenty years, and the unrestricted power of Congress to enact Naviga-tion laws. X HE convention of delegates from the several states to revise the Articlesof Confederation, was legally assembled at Philadelphia, in 1787, and appoint- t. CAPITOL—RALEIGH. • t * •V SLAVERY COMPROMISES. 393 ed George Washington its President. The result of its labors was the forma-tion of the present Constitution of the United States, though some amend-ments were afterwards made. The fourteenth of May was the day appointed for the meeting of the con-vention ; but seven states were not present till eleven days later, when theconvention assembled in the chamber of the State House in Philadelphia, inwhich the Continental Congress, while resident in that city, had been accus-tomed to hold its sessions, and in which the independence of the United Stateshad been declared. Washington was a member, and so was Franklin, for thetwo years since his return from Europe president of Pennsylvania. As Frank-lin
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