What is the commerce and slave trade compromise?

Question

What is the commerce and slave trade compromise?

Answer 1

An agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 protecting the interests of slaveholders by forbidding Congress the power to tax the export of goods from any State, and, for 20 years, the power to act on the slave trade.

The two issues that the Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise dealt with were whether Congress should be able to regulate trade and whether the United States should continue with slave trading. The North felt that Congress should control trade and also that they should put an end to slave trading. The South was wary of Congress regulating trade and, of course, wanted slave trade to continue. Again, the compromise was that Congress would be allowed to fairly control trade and the South would be allowed to continue trading slaves for 20 more years.