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Although the men of the revolutionary generation solved the problem of assumption, they inadvertently created an ongoing argument that would ultimately become the ideological core of American politics. Slavery is another topic that not only split our nation’s people into two separate social groups, but also continued to be an argument built into the United States’ framework for years to come. On February 11, 1790, Quaker protesters called for an end of slavery before Congress. Immediately, delegates from the South denied their requests, stating that the U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits Congress from passing a law that abolishes the slave trade and slavery until 1808. (Ninety percent of the population of slaves in the United States was found in the South.) The Southerners also questioned the logistical and economic effects of eliminating slavery. First of all, the United States debt would be raised from $77.1 million to $125 million in order to compensate the Southern farmers who would be losing their source of income. Second, at this point in history, no biracial society existed; therefore, a place for the black population to live once freed, was needed. Northerners, under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, asserte