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president of the New-York Manumission Society (NYMS) and US secretary of foreign affairs, found himself on the defensive. In a letter of May 1, 1788, British abolitionist Granville Sharp expressed dismay that the new US Constitution offered nothing better than postponement until 1808 of even the possibility of a slave trade ban. Sharp and his colleagues thought that "a consistincy of Character" would have produced something better. Jay responded that slavery survived "declarations on the subject of human rights" because "passions" took pre ce dence over "reason" and the practice had such deep roots. As for the stance of the Constitution, he offered a simple explanation: "local interests." As Jay elaborated, "Several of the States conceived that restraint on slavery might be too rapid to consist with their par tic u lar circumstances; and the importance of union rendered it necessary that their wishes . . . be gratified."The states, then, would be the crucial antislavery arena, but even their pro gress would be slow. Slaveholding and deep-seated "prejudices" made "a sudden and total stop to this species of oppression" unlikely. Still, Jay offered up New York as an encouraging exampl

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN