Excerpt from The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern: The Forms of Slavery That Prevailed in Ancient Nations, Particularly in Greece and Rome; The African Slave Trade and the Political History of Slavery in the United States Convention assembles at Philadelphia, 1787. Proceedings in reference to the slave basis of representation, the second compromise of the Constitution Debate. Remarks of Patterson, Wilson, King, Gouverneur Morris, and Sherman. - Debate on the Importation of slaves, by Rutledge, Ellsworth, Sherman, C. Pinckney. Denunciation of slavery by Mason of Virginia. - The third Compromise, the con tinuance of the African slave-trade for twenty years, and the unrestricted power of Congress to enact Navigation laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.