What if Slavery was abolished in 1808?

Could it have ever been fought for successfully during the ratification of the constitution that instead of the importation of slavery being halted by 1808 it would actually be abolished that year?

How would things have progressed differently as well had slavery ended almost 60 years earlier?
 
Could it have ever been fought for successfully during the ratification of the constitution that instead of the importation of slavery being halted by 1808 it would actually be abolished that year?

No. South Carolina and Georgia would never have ratified. Nor for that matter would North Carolina or Virginia--while both these states did contain some advocates of gradual emancipation, even such advocates would firmly oppose federal dictation and would insist that it was each state's business to decide whether and how to do away with slavery. For that matter, even New York did not pass a law for gradual emancipation until 1799. In New Jersey, there were still a handful of "apprentices for life" in 1860!
 
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