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> [“The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced recognition that included a measure of protection, but they contributed little to defining its national status.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/the-framers-of-the-constitution-dealing-with-slavery-as-an-incidental/)

Don E. Fehrenbacher

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## More by Don E. Fehrenbacher

> [“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/by-the-time-of-the-revolution-there-was-in-each-colony-an-accumulated/)

Don E. Fehrenbacher

> [“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/most-striking-however-was-the-position-taken-in-the-1840s-by-william/)

Don E. Fehrenbacher

> [“The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced recognition that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/the-framers-of-the-constitution-dealing-with-slavery-as-an-incidental/)

Don E. Fehrenbacher

> [“During observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, Justice Thurgood Marshall made a public attack upon the celebration in which he disparaged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-e-fehrenbacher/during-observance-of-the-bicentennial-of-the-constitution-in-1987/)

Don E. Fehrenbacher

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