Summarize the provisions concerning slavery

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The Constitution, as written in 1787, did not give the new national government any power to abolish slavery. In some ways it protected slavery, but it did not give the slaveholders everything that they might want. Summarize the provisions concerning slavery, including ways that the original Constitution protected slavery and the mild ways in which it allowed Congress to interfere with slavery. Answer should include, but not be limited to, an explanation of what the three-fifths rule actually signified.

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