Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution by Alfred W Blumrosen & Ruth G Blumrosen

Author:Alfred W Blumrosen & Ruth G Blumrosen [Blumrosen, Alfred W]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2006-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

Historian Richard Brookhiser emphasized the importance that Washington placed on his reputation, and how he considered the risks to that reputation of each new venture that presented itself as an opportunity. But the risks to his reputation in attending the Convention were simultaneously risks to the principle of self-government that he valued so highly.82 Washington’s unhappiness in his letter to Hamilton reflected the condition of the convention on July 10. It worsened the next day. Some examples of comments concerning slavery made between July 11 and 14 come from Madison’s notes, taken to record the proceedings.83

On July 11, Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania told the Convention he was:

Reduced to the dilemma of doing injustice to the southern states or to human nature, and he must therefore do it to the former. For he could never agree to give such encouragement to the slave trade as would be given by allowing them a representation for their Negroes, and he did not believe those states would ever confederate on terms that would deprive them of that trade.

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