Which author condemned the Constitution as pro-slavery in 1832?

Which author condemned the Constitution as pro-slavery in 1832?

• A. Abraham Lincoln
• B. William Lloyd Garrison
• C. Frederick Douglass
• D. Dred Scott

Answer: (B)

William Lloyd Garrison is the figure who, in 1832, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document. As the editor of The Liberator, he took a bold moral stance, contending that the Constitution protected and legitimized slaveholding through features like the Fugitive Slave Clause and the three-fifths compromise, effectively making the nation complicit in slavery. He believed that true liberty could not come from a system built to uphold that institution, so he pushed for immediate abolition and viewed reform from within the existing constitutional framework as insufficient or impossible. The other figures listed became known for anti-slavery or political debates in different eras or contexts, not for this specific 1832 condemnation of the Constitution.

William Lloyd Garrison is the figure who, in 1832, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document. As the editor of The Liberator, he took a bold moral stance, contending that the Constitution protected and legitimized slaveholding through features like the Fugitive Slave Clause and the three-fifths compromise, effectively making the nation complicit in slavery. He believed that true liberty could not come from a system built to uphold that institution, so he pushed for immediate abolition and viewed reform from within the existing constitutional framework as insufficient or impossible. The other figures listed became known for anti-slavery or political debates in different eras or contexts, not for this specific 1832 condemnation of the Constitution.