(Answered) How did the Constitutional Convention regulate the Atlantic slave trade?Outlawed itKept it open for…

➤ Why did delegates accept a twenty-year delay on banning the trade?
Delegates accepted the delay as a political compromise to secure Southern ratification. Southern economies relied on imported labor and feared a breakup of the union. Northern delegates exchanged an immediate ban for greater congressional authority over commerce and other concessions, postponing a divisive moral and economic decision.