[SatinDoll]

Please, I don’t call other’s thinking epithets. I’m just telling what I know about certain facts. Certainly we can discuss this without name calling, too.

You might take a look at my post #82, as part of it describes the fate of New England’s Indians at the hands of those damned yankees.

[rockrr]

“damned yankee” is an non-productive epithet

...just sayin

[ontap]

And your posit, that ownership of slaves was not illegal under the U.S.Constitution, ignores the Declaration of Independence - “...that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - ...”. The U.S.Constitution was instituted government broadly enshrining the principles set forth in the 1776 document.

Sorry that you are offended but this argument you put forth is patently absurd in that you attempt to claim rights for slaves in 1865 by maintaining that the south ignored the constitution when it is obvious the founding father did not consider them as worthy of the same rights as whites. I think they were wrong but never the less that was their thinking so it isn't surprising that people in the south would think the same. The constitution as interpreted at the time made slavery legal.