[jeffersondem]

“Far from “enshrining” slavery . . . our Founders’ Constitution never mentioned it by name and referred to it specifically only once (3/5 rule).

And even then, it was not mentioned in the United States constitution until Article I - simply to serve as the cornerstone for representation in Congress.

The mention of slavery in the United States constitution happened because the original slave states voted to include it, those states being New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland - and North and South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.

I doubt slavery would have been enshrined - er, I mean included - at all if it had not been in the economic and political best self-interest of those voting yea.

[jeffersondem]

“Far from “enshrining” slavery . . . our Founders’ Constitution never mentioned it by name and referred to it specifically only once (3/5 rule)."

And even then, it was not mentioned in the United States constitution until Article I - simply to serve as the cornerstone for representation in Congress.

The mention of slavery in the United States constitution happened because the original slave states voted to include it, those states being New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland - and North and South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.

I doubt slavery would have been enshrined - er, I mean included - at all if it had not been in the economic and political best self-interest of those voting yea.

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "I doubt slavery would have been enshrined - er, I mean included - at all if it had not been in the economic and political best self-interest of those voting yea."

Southerners insisted on protecting slavery, however obliquely mentioned, and Northerners reluctantly agreed.
That pattern of behavior continued until 1861 in the Union, until 1865 in the Confederacy.