“Southern states had outlawed the import of slaves from Africa for some time before the civil war.”
The Congress of the United States outlawed the importation of slaves into this country in 1808. This action was permitted by the Constitution of the United States. The last slaves brought into this country came in to Mobile Bay in Alabama in 1860.
If a Southerner owned 20 or more slaves, he could enjoy the Civil War from the comfort of his veranda. Safe in the knowledge that his countrymen, that did not own that may slaves, were fighting and dying in places like “the Corn Field, Cemetery Ridge or the Mule Shoe to secure his right to his “property”.
To secure the rights of all citizens to be free of people invading their state and murdering their citizens.
Do you think people have the right to not be murdered by pretentious moralizers who hate them? I would like to know, because the Antifa and BLM types are motivated by the same hate lust as those people who invaded the southern states back in 1861.
Oh, and by the way, the *UNITED STATES* guaranteed the right to slave property at that time, so spare us the deceptive moralizing intending to disguise the fact that the *UNITED STATES* protected the right to slavery at that very same time they were invading to murder people and establish Washington DC supremacy over other people.
NORTHERN PROFITS from SLAVERY
” Even after slavery was outlawed in the North, ships out of New England continued to carry thousands of Africans to the American South. Some 156,000 slaves were brought to the United States in the period 1801-08, almost all of them on ships that sailed from New England ports that had recently outlawed slavery. Rhode Island slavers alone imported an average of 6,400 Africans annually into the U.S. in the years 1805 and 1806. The financial base of New England’s antebellum manufacturing boom was money it had made in shipping. And that shipping money was largely acquired directly or indirectly from slavery, whether by importing Africans to the Americas, transporting slave-grown cotton to England, or hauling Pennsylvania wheat and Rhode Island rum to the slave-labor colonies of the Caribbean.
Northerners profited from slavery in many ways, right up to the eve of the Civil War. The decline of slavery in the upper South is well documented, as is the sale of slaves from Virginia and Maryland to the cotton plantations of the Deep South. But someone had to get them there, and the U.S. coastal trade was firmly in Northern hands. William Lloyd Garrison made his first mark as an anti-slavery man by printing attacks on New England merchants who shipped slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans. “
excerpted from http://slavenorth.com/profits.htm