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No, I do not believe there was any meaningful opposition to slavery. Many who tried to show they were against this horrible and clear violation of human rights didn't care enough to stop contributing personally. For example this week we looked at how Thomas Jefferson described slavery as cruel, and disgraceful. He blames King George lll for stripping the right of life and liberty from slaves, yet he still owned slaves himself. This shows he truly did not care about slaves.

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Personally I appreciated the critical race approach as it allows us to understand how laws, social movements, media and many aspects of history is shaped by conceptions race and ethnicity.

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I appreciated the Marxist approach, as it allowed me to view history and historiography from a different 'lens', so to speak. It also allowed me to understand the different relationships between the bourgeoise and the proletarian classes

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Many of the founding fathers new that slavery was immoral, and there were also many prominent abolitionists during the time that the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

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I learned the most from Marxism, it was interesting to see the different perspectives in U.S. history.

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I don't think that there was any meaningful opposition to making slavery legal, because although there were founding fathers that knew slavery was wrong, they cared more about making the U.S. more united.

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I really appreciated the critical race theory approach. I think this was because it is a hotly contested topic by conservatives, and it was interesting to see the reality behind it. I believe that it is important to provide proper information about controversial topics, and I'm happy class was able to provide that.

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No. I do not think that there was any meaningful opposition to making slavery legal in the constitution. Even though many of the founding fathers had their qualms about slavery, none of them were committed enough to stamp it out. For instance, just as mentioned in the 1619 Project, founding fathers such as Alexander Hamilton owned slaves but also espoused values of liberty on paper. Opposition from new slave owners made this difficult and ultimately it made slavery an issue that was turned away to be discussed later.

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I think there wasn't meaningful oppostion to making slavery legal in the U.S. Constitution as Southern states wanted to keep slavery to get benefit for their economic which was a stupid idea becasue of how they treated slaves through slavery.

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I think this week I learned about Marxism most because it was new for me, so I was able to see the U.S history in different perspective with Maxism

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This week I learned about Marxist history. It was interesting to see the different ideas that came from people.

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I don't think there was a meaningful opposition to making slavery legal in the U.S. Constitution because although they saw how slavery was wrong, they prioritized what other states thought and made way for what the South wanted.

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I think I appreciated learning about Marxist history because I think that Karl Marx has been given a negative connotation with communism that has become a bit of a buzz word in the US. So, it was good to know the actual rationale behind it and understand and sympathize with how people may support it.

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While I do think the opposition was meaningful, I don't think that it was necessarily valid given the situation nor strong enough for it to be of value. The only opposition-held was that they knew slavery was morally wrong, however, because of the South's threat of secession and the huge role it played within the US economy.

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I learned the most from Marxism because I had never heard of it before and I was shocked that socialism was a part of it. It refined both my definition of socialism and the working class. I appreciated learning about critical race theory the most because I had heard of it but never knew the definition. Its a very interesting topic that I would like to explore.

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The abolitionist movement was meaningful opposition. I think there was because of books such as "The Forgotten Fifth"  by Gary Nash and activists such as Prince Hall that educated others on the issued that Black Americans faced and Black Americans effort against slavery is why there is. - Khadi

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I do not think there were meaningful oppositions from the people in power. While people did express that they thought slavery was wrong, I don't think those oppositions could be considered meaningful because they clearly prioritized making compromises for the south. There were definitely meaningful oppositions coming from African American citizens.

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I think we learned more about Marxism so I learned the most new things about that, but generally, I think CRT is more interesting. It can include a lot of ideas that come up in Marxism, but through racist oppressive systems.

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I liked looking at Marxist history because it was new way for me to view historical events. I thought it was really interesting to see how economics played a role in the development of the constitution

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I don't there was meaningful opposition to making slavery legal in the Constitution. Although many delegates didn't agree with slavery, they found that not arguing with the South was more important. This shows how lightly they viewed this clear, horrible human rights violation.

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I liked the critical race approach of history because I think we need to study the relationship of social status and racism to fully understand American history.

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There was. William Freehling published an article against legalizing slavery in the Constitution. And I believe all opposition against slavery is meaningful.

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I liked the Marxist history as it was a different perspective that was interesting to learn about.

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I feel like there was as the South was very against slavery and were very racist towards Black Americans