Three Fifths: Debates Related to the Slavery Issues from the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Play Format

By Stewart A Hanley

After writing my play '1787: The Signing," which is sort of a "condensed version" of the Constitutional Convention, I wished I could have devoted more of the content to the issues surrounding slavery. So, I went back through James Madison's Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention, and gathered all the debates related to slavery. The "three fifths compromise" is the most known from this Convention, but there were others, such as their debates on escaped slaves, the slave trade, and ending slavery itself. These debates are scattered throughout the 800+ pages of Madison's work, so I then needed to assemble them into what could be presented as one debate, which I did in a play format.Aside from whatever minor editing I needed to do to make the text flow together, the words in play are the words from the speakers at the Convention. I did everything in my skills not to influence the words one way or the other; I am leaving that up to the readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520809263
• ISBN13: 9781520809267
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"