was the beginning of the slave trade on a mass scale, which built the foundation of our country on unsteady terms.
             Slavery also had a profound impact on the drafts of two of our most famous documents in history – the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States. In writing the draft for the Articles, the delegates had trouble figuring out how they wanted their states to be represented. Larger states favored representation according to population, but no census existed, and smaller states just wanted to be treated as equals. To raise money, Congress would have to print it or requisition specific amounts of money from the states. Northern states wanted slaves to be counted in computing the ratios because it would add to the population a
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