The men who framed it, and those who adopted it, framed and adopted it for the people, and the whole people--colored men being at that time legal voters in most of the States.
From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that the Constitution was framed for all people, including Black men who were voters at the time of its adoption.
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It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.