Question

How does Mr. Rutledge ease Mr. Martin’s fear of being bound to protect the southern states?

What Did Mr. Rutledge mean by it "will increase the commodities of which they will become carriers"?

Answer 1

Mr. Rutledge eased Mr. Martin's fear of being bound to protect the southern states by stating that the Southern states would excuse other states of the need to protect them should a slave revolt arise.

This question is in relation to the Constitutional Convention where Mr. L. Martin of Maryland believed that:

• The Three-Fifths Compromise would encourage the South to import more enslaved people
• The enslaved people might rebel against their masters and carry out an insurrection
• Slave-trade should not be in the Constitution in the first place.

Mr. Rutledge, a delegate from South Carolina, replied him by saying that the South would not expect other states to support them if a slave revolt was to happen.

Mr. Rutledge then said the statement in the question which was meant to accuse the North of hypocrisy because he believed that if the number of enslaved people increased in the South, they would be able to produce more of the goods that the North buys from the South.

In conclusion, slavery was hotly contested by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention with the South being staunchly is support of it.

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