Jake : November 2012

The United States constitution is supporting slavery. The documents that we read in class have made it clear that the government wants slavery but tries to stay away from the subject as much as possible. Out of all the documents that we read there was only one that was really showed off its affection for slavery. All the writers of the constitution owned slavesamd didn't want to get rid of them. The slaves were the key to their success and they were the slaves they owned. Overall, the writers of the constitution supported slavery.

First of all the writers of the constitution were all slave owners. Slaves were apart of their everyday life and it made their life easier and made them more money. Why would the writers put something in the constitution that would make their lives harder and not make them as rich? According to Europians, blacks were less superior than whites so it was the whites job to keep the world civilized. They thought that they were superior and more civilized so the whites thought it was right to give the blacks the note uncivilized jobs. The whites thought ruling over we're more civilized.

In the constitution the writers also say the slaves are unequal. The people who wrote the constitution say the slaves only counted as three fifths of a person. The slaves weren't considered people they were only considered property of their owners. The slaves owners were allowed to do whatever they wanted to do with the slaves. The slaves were not allowed to react to anything or they would have been beat and whipped. The slaves were tricked into going with sellers and sold for a prophet. The slaves were treated the exact opposite of the whites.

All whites were allowed to own slaves. The constitution gave the whites the right to own slaves. The constitution writers thought that it was good to put the right to own slaves in the constitution. They didn't try to think about how the slaves would react. They were American and their natural rights were taken away because of the constitution. The constitution writers new they were taking away the rights of black Americans.

The constitution was very pro slavery. The constitution writers wanted a better life for them so they put the blacks through hell making them work for their personal gain. The whites would have been ruined without the slaves. They would have had to do the work themselves and they thought they were above all of the chore labor. The constitution fed the fire of slavery.