Instead, it was documented that representatives chosen by misrepresented southern parliaments happened to be, and remained to be, firmly pro-slavery. ... Principally, the authors of the Constitution adjourned the dispute for about twenty years, in which the period for debating should improve. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A newspaper author's retort to one particularly ferocious kidnapping spoke to how these performs insulted Mid-Atlantic whites' pride in living in the Free states. ... If snatching and the slave trade endangered Northerners' chosen remoteness from slavery in the Mid-Atlantic, numerous North westerners vexed that slavery itself would extend into their district. ...

• Word Count: 2503
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate