Although the original United States Constitution did not contain the words "slave" or "slavery" within its text, it dealt directly with American slavery in at least five of its provisions and indirect
Constitution of the United States
George Washington presiding the Philadelphia Convention
Fredrick Douglass
Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held that the United States Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black Afr
The Missouri Compromise created the slave-holding state Missouri (Mo., yellow) but prohibited slavery in the rest of the former Louisiana Territory (here, marked Missouri Territory 1812, green) north of latitude 36°30' North. Modern state boundaries are also shown.
Dred Scott
Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the majority opinion in the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
Dred and Harriet Scott Statue in St. Louis