Did it ever occur to you that you might be a little nuts if you make up your own jargon, and then expect other people to understand what you are talking about when you repeat your own made up jargon?
The propaganda is what we've been hearing all these years, and a cursory examination of the claims demonstrate them to be not reasonable. The truth appears to be:
1. Slavery couldn't expand.
2. Slavery couldn't be abolished.
Just these two points puts a stake through the heart of most of the propaganda on the subject, at least for any rational man.
It often occurs to me that DiogenesLamp might be a little nuts.
DiogenesLamp: "The truth appears to be:
1. Slavery couldn't expand.
2. Slavery couldn't be abolished."
Your claims that "slavery couldn't expand" are just nonsense.
US slavery could & did expand across the west, wherever it could be productively employed and wasn't prohibited.
For just one example, there were thousands of slaves in the California gold fields.
And there were many Southern "filibusters" into Caribbean and Central American countries intended to set up more territories for slavery to expand into.
So what slavery lacked in 1860 was not the will to expand but only the military power needed to force & enforce it.
As for abolition, slavery could be, and was, abolished wherever enough non-slaveholders lived.
An example is California.
DiogenesLamp: "Just these two points puts a stake through the heart of most of the propaganda on the subject, at least for any rational man."
But lies can't "put a stake" into anything.
At best they serve to confuse the weak minded.
The truth is, in 1860 slavery could & did expand wherever it wasn't strongly opposed.