Ratification of the Constitution Indexes | Index to Volumes 8–10: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: Virginia | S | Slavery
Debates [Ratification by the States 10:1481]
– British confiscation of slaves during Revolution [6 references]
– opposition to [8 references]
– slaves escape to East Florida [1 reference]
– slaves considered as property [7 references]
– fugitive-slave clause protects property [3 references]
– defense of Constitution’s provisions protecting [2 references]
– three-fifths clause [7 references]
– manumission of [3 references]
– Constitution allows abolition of [3 references]
– population of in Va. [5 references]
– need for in S.C. and Ga. [1 reference]
– fugitive-slave provision in Northwest Ordinance [1 reference]
– taxation on [5 references]
– no federal restriction on power of states to emancipate [1 reference]
– danger from [4 references]
– and representation [3 references]
– compared with free labor [1 reference]
– federal taxes on would not affect Eastern States [1 reference]
– argument over whether states may use militia to suppress slave insurrections [2 references]
– fugitive-slave clause and federal capital [3 references]
– endangered by Constitution [7 references]
– Constitution does not endanger [6 references]
– criticism of Constitution’s protection for [2 references]
– population of slaves in Conn., N.J., and N.Y. [1 reference]
– Va. law to free slaves who fought in Revolution [2 references]
– population of free blacks in Va. [1 reference]