The Glorious Liberty Document.

UNITED States. Constitution; LEGAL status of enslaved persons; LIBERTY; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; UNITED States politics & government

The author discusses the legal history of slavery in the U.S. and argues that the U.S. Constitution as originally written was an anti-slavery document that supported liberty. The article examines the U.S. Constitution's omission of the words slaves or slavery from the document by the framers of the Constitution, how the framers dealt with slavery during the early years of the republic, and the conditions that eventually led to the U.S. Civil War.