MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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It guaranteed freedom to every American.
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It allowed slaves to have fair trials.
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It allowed slaves to speak out against slavery.
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Nothing.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Detailed explanation-3: -International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights No one shall be held in slavery; slavery and the slave-trade in all their forms shall be prohibited. No one shall be held in servitude.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Slaves had no constitutional rights; they could not testify in court against a white person; they could not leave the plantation without permission.