The Constitutional Convention barred antislavery discussion yet slavery still dominated it

Evidence

In fact, delegates made it clear that slavery would be left out of the conversation. Antislavery discussions were disallowed in drawing up what the writers were pegging as humankind’s ultimate constitution of freedom. It only took a few weeks, though, for slavery and its baggage to creep into the constitutional deliberations. Once opened, the question of slavery never left. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 303

Categorization

• XREF: The attempt to silence discussion of an exploitative institution that then inevitably recurs is a pattern the reader sees in anti-noise/anti-racism contexts — silencing doesn’t make the harm vanish. — connects to: Southern delegates argued enslaved people were property, not taxable free persons. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 293