TH, as a prominent group of Black abolitionists in the antebellum north, would interpret the constitution as an anti-slavery document rather than a pro-slavery document.
You are a prominent group of Black abolitionists in a northern US free state a few years before the Civil War (late 1850s). There are two primary ways for abolitionists to interpret the Constitution at this time. The first is to interpret the Constitution as a pro-slavery document, citing clauses such as the three-fifths compromise (which gives states three votes for every five slaves), the ban on outlawing the international slave trade until 1808, and the so-called “fugitive slave clause,” which ensures that a slave cannot legally abandon a slave state for a free state. The second is to interpret the Constitution as an anti-slavery document, arguing that it established strong principles of equality which logically apply to all people.