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To: jeffersondem

I agree that all the states share some blame, but the state’s that were threatening to leave the constitutional convention over the slavery issue share more. Those same states are the reason that the African slave trade was allowed to continue for twenty years. If you have read the constitutional convention notes you will see that again South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, would not agree to an immediate end to the African slave trade so a compromise was reached.

You keep avoiding my question, do you believe chattel slavery as practiced in the United States was wrong and immoral?


1,484 posted on 02/06/2020 8:57:43 AM PST by OIFVeteran
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“I agree that all the states share some blame, but the state’s that were threatening to leave the constitutional convention over the slavery issue share more.”

The three states that you have scapegoated were not even necessary to ratify the constitution and establish a viable nation.

The other 10 slave states could have established a viable constitution and a viable nation that excluded slavery. Do you know why the other 10 slave states did not?


1,487 posted on 02/06/2020 10:39:17 AM PST by jeffersondem
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