Summary: <a href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2012/04/11/understanding-slavery-and-the-american-founding-a-conversation-with-gordon-lloyd/"></a>Union workers from IBEW Local 613 marching in the Martin Luther King, Jr Day parade in Atlanta, Georgia on January 20, 2020 (John Pryor/Shutterstock.com).This new conversation in Liberty Law Talk is with Gordon Lloyd, a scholar of the American founding. Lloyd focuses on the debates in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the state constitutional ratifying conventions of 1788 in order to better understand the compromises leading framers made to accommodate the institution of slavery in the early republic. Many, however, would dispute the term "compromises" and argue that it is an inaccurate understanding of the Constitution's relationship to slavery. Numerous historical arguments center on the protections the Constitution provided to slaveholders through the three-fifths clause, the fugitive slave clause, and the twenty-year…<a class="moretag" href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2012/04/11/understanding-slavery-and-the-american-founding-a-conversation-with-gordon-lloyd/">Read More</a>
