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Why do you think the Constitutional Convention avoided the subject of slavery while forming the new republic?

Why do you think the Constitutional Convention avoided the subject of slavery while forming the new republic? 

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The issue of slavery was removed because it was "the most threatening and divisive issue" and "it threatened to disrupt the fragile union just as it was conjealing."

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Founding Brothers/ Page 17