Where in the U.S. Constitution did those who favored abolition of slavery make compromises?
A couple of notes first: a) ‘Slaves’ are nowhere mentioned by name in the Constitution. It very carefully avoids the term. We may think this is because they just didn’t want to ‘admit the truth’. But perhaps it was more that at that time almost ALL agreed slavery was not a good thing, and that they were accommodating it in the short term, with the hope and expectation that it would soon die out. In fact, even those who believed people could be treated as property, ALSO regarded them, in at least some respects, as persons. b) Allowing slavery was NOT a compromise. The movement was growing to gradually abolish slavery in individual states (most of the Northern states had done so by this time), as well as to keep it out of the territories. (Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, was in New York passing the Northwest Ordinance at the same time as the Constitution was being drawn up in Philadelphia. This legislation provided that the Northwest Territories be organized into states WI
