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- Apr 2024
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This demonstrates that the government did not follow the constitution, because if they had, they would have known that this implied that slavery was unconstitutional.
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The right of property in slaves was recognized by giving to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the right to represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twenty years; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor.
Important because it describes what the federal government did enact.
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have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
South Carolina seceded from the United States.
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In other words, if an African American flees to another state where they may have greater freedom, if captured, they will be returned to their masters in the state from which they escaped.
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