Ratification of the Constitution Indexes | Index to Volumes 4–7: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: Massachusetts | S | Slavery
– can be abolished by any individual state at any time [1 reference]
– will be abolished gradually [1 reference]
– will probably not be abolished after 1808 [1 reference]
– support for abolition of [1 reference]
– each state should decide itself whether to abolish [1 reference]
– disadvantages in agricultural system [4 references]
– America will be punished for [1 reference]
– loss of slaves during American Revolution [1 reference]
– a violation of principles of American Revolution [1 reference]
– Biblical references defending [2 references]
– cannot control actions of others [1 reference]
– emancipation by Congress is not possible [1 reference]
– legal in Conn. and N.Y. [1 reference]
– admission that, failure to abolish is weakness of Constitution [1 reference]
– Constitution will eventually kill [2 references]
– criticism of no provision to eliminate in Constitution [1 reference]
– no way in Constitution to free slaves born in Southern States [1 reference]
– objections to Constitution allowing continuation of [1 reference]
– Constitutional Convention not empowered to emancipate [1 reference]
– criticism of [7 references]
– detested [3 references]
– impractical to emancipate all slaves immediately [1 reference]
– in ancient Greece and Rome [1 reference]
– Hazard and Belknap exchange letters concerning status of slaves and slavery [1 reference]
– will draw down vengeance of Heaven [1 reference]
– immediate and total emancipation would hurt slaves [1 reference]
– criticism of Richard Henry Lee as owner of and author of Federal Farmer [1 reference]
– John Locke states that slaves have no part in civil society [1 reference]
– Mass. can do nothing to end it in Southern States [1 reference]
– Mass. should not unite with Southern States with [1 reference]
– existed in Mass. [1 reference]
– few in Eastern States and none in Mass. [1 reference]
– legal opposition to slavery in Mass. [1 reference]
– prohibited by Mass. Declaration of Rights [6 references]
– a violation of natural law [1 reference]
– prohibited in Northwest Territory [2 references]
– Quakers believe that abolition of must be gradual to be effectual [1 reference]
– immigrant slaves will cause poll taxes to go up [1 reference]
– slaves cannot be freed in Southern States [2 references]
– estimates of slave population in U.S. [2 references]
– South would object to Constitution if it thought it would kill slavery [1 reference]
– as source of Southern wealth [1 reference]
– three-fifths clause used in population amendment to Articles of Confederation [1 reference]
– defense of three-fifths clause for apportioning taxes [1 reference]
– objection to three-fifths clause in Constitution [15 references]
– slaves as property [2 references]
– slave-trade clause as step toward emancipation [4 references]
– George Washington attacked for owning slaves [4 references]