QUESTION $6$

What did Professor Ellis point out about why the debate over slavery was silenced in the Early Republic?

a$.$ The disagreement over the slave trade in $1787$ already showed adivision between the North $($Massachusetts$,$ Connecticut, and New York$)$ that want abolish the slave trade and the South $($Virginia$,$ Maryland, and South Carolina$)$ that wanted to keep the slave trade.

b$.$ The founding generation believed the issue of slavery would tear apart the new country.

c$.$ All delegates to the Constitutional Convention believed slavery was immoral and wanted to abolish it$,$ but they did not know what to do with forme