Read these passages from James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention. MR. L. MARTIN proposed to . . . allow a prohibition or tax on the importation of slaves. . . . [The slave trade] was inconsistent with the principles of the revolution, and dishonorable to the American character . . . .

Mr. RUTLEDGE. If the Convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be untouched, the expectation is vain.

–James Madison
August 21–22, 1787

Which slavery-related issue raised at the Constitutional Convention do these two passages address?

the practice of bringing enslaved Africans to America
the disenfranchisement of enslaved men and women
the idea of counting an enslaved worker as three-fifths of a person
a fugitive clause that allowed slaveholders to recover runaways