Why Slavery Does Not Exist

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Throughout history, slavery has always been a problem and it still exists today. The United States does not have slavery due to amendments in the constitution. Although there is no amendment that completely states no slavery, there are however, three specific instances in the constitution that prevent slavery from happening. One of them is the three-fifths compromise. Another is the fugitive slave clause, and the last one is the 13th amendment. All three of these are located in the constitution and are the reason why slavery does not exist in the United States today.
The three-fifths compromise is found in article 1, section 2, and clause 3 of the constitution. The three-fifths clause stated that only three-fifths of the number of slaves would be counted. When the United States …show more content…

The fugitive slave clause is found in article 3 of the United States constitution in section 2, clause 3. The law required that any slave who escaped to any other state would be returned back to their owner in the state from which they left. Even if a slave escaped to a non slave state, they would still not be considered free. No matter where they were found they would be brought back to their owner. They were not able to fight for their own rights because it was the law. There were not any actual international laws that made the sovereign states bring back escaped slaves that have moved to their area. The last reference to slavery in the constitution is the slave trade. This is located in article 1, section 9, and clause 1 of the constitution. This clause prevents the ability of the congress to pass any type of law that can cancel the importation of slaves. This can only occur after the year 1808. Even though this was occurring, they were allowed to tax each individual slave. The amount of money for each was 10

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