effected slavery. These effects were stemmed from both the good and bad sides of

the issue. On the good side of the spectrum during the drafting of the Constitution

only a few of the founding fathers felt that slavery was necessary for the survival of

the colonies according to William Freehling. On the other side of this the founding

father Jefferson knew that free blacks and whites could live together and he himself

felt that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. These racist thought made it

seem logical for the abolition of slavery to be a slower process a better idea even if

the not Christian like to enslave other people. The founding fathers wished to bring

drafted the congressional ordinance making slavery illegal.

slave trade began in the Declaration of Independence. Even though this did not

found illegal in upper western territories. This was until 3 years after Jefferson

directly stop slavery it did help southern states to begin to free their slaves. In

enough and it was just fueling the fire for the civil war.

governor of Indiana by a slim amount of votes and began the abolition of slavery in

year period. It is clear that in an attempted to help the country and abolish slavery

This time period allotted for more slaves and black descendants to suffer under he

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