Was slavery permitted in the original Consitution?

Question

True or false: Slavery was permitted under the Articles of Confederation but not the original Consititution.

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Answer 1

To put it simply it was illegally legal

.........Ratification Debate on the U.S. Constitution
...............Read this......................
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

-- Declaration of Independence, 1776

...............Now Read This...........
Yet at the time these words were written, more than 500,000 black Americans were slaves. Jefferson himself owned more than 100. Slaves accounted for about one-fifth of the population in the American colonies. Most of them lived in the Southern colonies, where slaves made up 40 percent of the population.

http://www.crf-usa.org/lessons/slavery_const.htm

Answer 2

The constitution does state that all men are created equal, but African Americans were not considered 'men' in the original constitution. My facts are bit fuzzy, but i think it was the virginia agreement, or something like that which considered black men to count as 2/3 a person when counting population. You can look this up. Sorry I wasn't more help.

Answer 3

That is True. The constitution states all men are created equal. In the articules of the confederation states, the south, slaves were not considered equal to white men.

Answer 4

true. the constitution states that every body is equal. so in the constitutoin slavery was not permitted

Answer 5

I don't know the answer for sure. However Federal Law cancels out State Law. If that rule was true back then, there was probably no Federal Law against slavery! Dunno????

Answer 6

false

Answer 7

true