African American Abolitionists in the United States in the 18th Century

debates among african american abolitionists in the 18 thirties, forties and fifties about whether the original constitution was itself so immoral that any accommodation to it made the person who accommodated also immoral. To agree to the compromise constitution was to be committed to what the abolitionist wendell phillips called an agreement with death and a covenant with hell. Hezekiah ward douglas: "The constitution of the united states is pro slavery"