Read the paragraph from the section "Constitution through compromise."
Some delegates considered slavery
an evil institution. George Mason of
Virginia even suggested that the
slave trade should be made illegal.
Delegates from South Carolina and
Georgia, where slavery was
expanding rapidly in the late 1700s,
angrily opposed this limitation.
WHY does the author include George Mason's
suggestion and some states' reaction to it?
А
to show how delegates almost ended the
slave trade
*B
to emphasize how delegates thought slavery
was evil