In reply to <a href="https://macdailynews.com/2020/04/22/u-s-senator-demands-tim-cook-and-sundar-pichai-be-personally-accountable-for-coronavirus-contact-tracing-privacy/#comment-2190578">leodavinci1</a>.
The Constitution avoided the word “slave” because the Southern delegates preferred “servants”and the Northern delegates did not want to explicitly approve it. Nevertheless, there are at least two provisions relating to slavery.
Article I, Section 3: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.” There were no other persons besides slaves.
Article I, Section 9 : "The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think pro
