My copy of the Constitution is different than yours.
Of course my history books are 100% different than what you print so there is that.
In the Constitution Article 1 Section 9, the framers put a provision that would provide the means to end slavery in 1808 by putting an end to the slave trade once and for all. If that was not modification I don't know what is.
But let's hear from James Madison about that provision: It is to be hoped, that by expressing a national disapprobation of this trade, we may destroy it, and save ourselves from reproaches, and our posterity the imbecility ever attendant on a country filled with slaves. James Madison, Import Duty on Slaves, House of Representatives 13 May 1789
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