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Document Analysis: Slavery Grievance (answer in your notebook)

Focus Question : Why did the Constitution of 1787 allow slavery to continue, if the Declaration of Independence in 1776 claimed that “all men are created equal?”. Document Analysis: Slavery Grievance (answer in your notebook).

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Document Analysis: Slavery Grievance (answer in your notebook)

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  1. Focus Question: Why did the Constitution of 1787 allow slavery to continue, if the Declaration of Independence in 1776 claimed that “all men are created equal?”

  2. Document Analysis: Slavery Grievance (answer in your notebook) • How does the Slavery Grievance describe slavery? Who does Jefferson blame for the continuation of the slave trade? • Why does Jefferson italicize the word ‘Christian’ at the end of the first paragraph? • Why do you think that Thomas Jefferson wrote a paragraph about slavery when he wrote the Declaration of Independence?

  3. Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787

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