America a History I the United States Ii the Dominion of Canada Iii Sout
America a History I the United States Ii the Dominion of Canada Iii Sout
Robert Mackenzie
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Had the majority followed their own course, provision would have been made then for the gradual extinction of slavery. But there arose here a necessity for one of those compromises by which the history of America has been so sadly marked. When it was proposed to prohibit the importation of slaves, all the Northern and most of the Southern States favoured the proposal. But South Carolina and Georgia were insatiable in their thirst for African labour. They decisively refused to become parties to ...a Union in which there was to be no importa- tion of slaves. The other States yielded. Instead of an im- mediate abolition of this hateful traffic, it was agreed merely that after twenty years Congress should be at liberty to abolish 160 SLAVERY. the slave-track- if it chose. By the same threat of disunion the Slave States of the extreme South gained other advantages. It was fixed by the Constitution that a slave "who fled to a Free State was not therefore to become a free man. He must be given Lack to his owner.
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