[15] Journals of Cong., I. 27, 32-8.

 [16] Danbury, Dec. 12, 1774:  Force, American Archives, 4th
      Ser., I. 1038.  This case and that of Georgia are the only ones
      I have found in which the slave-trade clause was specifically
      mentioned.

 [17] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1033, 1136,
      1160, 1163; II. 279-281, 1544; Journals of Cong., May 13,
      15, 17, 1775.

 [18] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1136.

 [19] Ibid., II. 279-81.

 [20] Ibid., I. 1160.

 [21] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., I. 1163.

 [22] Journals of Cong., May 13, 15, 1775.

 [23] Ibid., May 17, 1775.

 [24] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., II. 1545.

 [25] Drayton, Memoirs of the American Revolution, I. 182. 
      Cf. pp. 181-7; Ramsay, History of S. Carolina, I. 231.

 [26] Force, American Archives, 4th Ser., II. 33-4.

 [27] Journals of Cong., II. 122.

 [28] Clarkson, Impolicy of the Slave-Trade, pp. 125-8.

 [29] Ibid., pp. 25-6.

 [30] Ibid.

 [31] Jefferson, Works (Washington, 1853-4), I. 23-4.  On the
      Declaration as an anti-slavery document, cf.  Elliot, Debates
      (1861), I. 89.

 [32] Jefferson, Works (Washington, 1853-4), I. 19.

 [33] Clarkson, Impolicy of the Slave-Trade, pp. 25-6;
      Report, etc., as above.

 [34] Witness the many high duty acts on slaves, and the
      revenue derived therefrom.  Massachusetts had sixty
      distilleries running in 1783.  Cf.  Sheffield, Observations on
      American Commerce, p. 267.

 [35] Elliot, Debates, I. 72-3.  Cf.  Art. 8 of the Articles of
      Confederation.

 [36] Journals of Cong., 1781, June 25; July 18; Sept. 21,
      27; Nov. 8, 13, 30; Dec. 4.

 [37] Ibid., 1782-3, pp. 418-9, 425.

 [38] Annals of Cong., 1 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1183.

 [39] Cf. above, chapters ii., iii., iv.

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Chapter VI

THE FEDERAL CONVENTION. 1787.

32.  The First Proposition. 33.  The General Debate. 34.  The Special Committee and the “Bargain.” 35.  The Appeal to the Convention. 36.  Settlement by the Convention. 37.  Reception of the Clause by the Nation. 38.  Attitude of the State Conventions. 39.  Acceptance of the Policy.

32. The First Proposition. Slavery occupied no prominent place in the Convention called to remedy the glaring defects of the Confederation, for the obvious reason that few of the delegates thought it expedient to touch a delicate subject which, if let