MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
CREATING STATE CONSTITUTIONS AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle Passage itself lasted roughly 80 days on ships ranging from small schooners to massive, purpose-built “slave ships.” Ship crews packed humans together on or below decks without space to sit up or move around. Without ventilation or sufficient water, about 15% grew sick and died.
Detailed explanation-2: -The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America-but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nevertheless, slavery received important protections in the Constitution. The notorious three-fifths clause-which counted three-fifths of a state’s slave population in apportioning representation-gave the South extra representation in the House of Representatives and extra votes in the Electoral College.
Detailed explanation-4: -The specific clauses of the Constitution related to slavery were the Three-Fifths Clause, the ban on Congress ending the slave trade for twenty years, the fugitive slave clause, and the slave insurrections.