“You don’t see a need for 61 states to ratify an amendment to end slavery as being a problem”
It was not a problem to the founders of the United States Constitution. And it is not a problem for me.
The founders wrote into the constitution a supermajority requirement to peacefully adopt an amendment.
Of the original 13 states, 13 of them voted to include the supermajority requirement.
But it was a mathematical impossibility in 1860, and would be impossible today as well. You don't consider that a problem?
The founders wrote into the constitution a supermajority requirement to peacefully adopt an amendment.
Your were looking for a reasonable explanation why no attempt to end slavery through Constitutional amendment was tried before the Southern rebellion. The answer is that it was mathematically impossible, and everyone knew it. Everyone, apparently, except you.