Human Flesh Quotes



The “late continental convention” referred to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia the Constitution there drafted at this point not only failed to come to grips with the slavery issue, but did not even have the Bill of Rights yet. Although many of the delegates wanted to prohibit and/or limit slavery, there was no way to create a Constitution limiting slavery as the Southern states would not countenance it. In a sense, American Constitutional unity was purchased at the price of silence on the slavery issue which was borne by Black Americans ever since,