*The delegates discussed whether or not to use the word “slavery.” On August 25, Gouverneur Morris recommended that the clause prohibiting “Importation of such Persons as any of the States . . . shall think proper to admit” be revised to read “importation of slaves into N. Carolina, S— Carolina & Georgia,” a change which he believed would make clear that the proposed prohibition had nothing to do with naturalization of European immigrants to those states. George Mason of Virginia expressed no objection to using the word “slaves” but worried that explicitly naming certain states might cause offense. See Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1937), 2:415.