Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery?

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Frederick Douglass, after initially agreeing with William Lloyd Garrison's view that the Constitution was pro-slavery, eventually came to believe that it could be interpreted as an anti-slavery document. He argued that the Constitution, properly understood, did not support the institution of slavery and could be used as a tool in the fight against it.

Before the Civil War, Who Came to Believe That the U.S