Why did Southern and Northern delegates disagree over whether the new Congress should have the commerce power?

Southern delegates feared that giving Congress power over commerce would let it regulate or end the trade in enslaved people. Northern delegates generally supported federal commerce power, so the disagreement centered on the South’s concern that Congress could restrict the slave trade. The correct choice is “Southerners feared it would lead to the end of the trade in enslaved people.”

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