Is the Constitution a Pro- or Anti-Slavery Document?

Join us for a moderated conversation about the essential nature of the Constitution and the Founders' opinions about American slavery.

Teaching American History's Saturday webinar series provides educators with a chance to participate in a text-based roundtable discussion of American history and politics. For the 2022-2023 season we've chosen to highlight controversial topics from America's past.

Documents:

• Constitutional Convention: The Slave Trade

• U.S. Constitution

• On the Constitution and the Union, William Lloyd Garrison

• Dred Scott v. Sanford, majority opinion, Roger Taney

• The Constitution of the United States Is it Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?, Frederick Douglass