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What two decisions were made at the Philadelphia convention involving slaves and slavery?

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They worked out a compromise with the Southern states. They agreed that Congress could not tax exports and that no law could be passed to ban the slave trade until 1808. And in a final concession to the South, the delegates approved a fugitive slave clause.

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