Nice try at confusion dopey. No, the Declaration of Independence was not a document that gave the southern states the right to own slaves.
So while you and your Confederate clowns would like to think that it does, Sorry Charlie but you missed wide of the mark.
Boy, you Democrats really are dumb.
Southern states? Is that all you know about slavery?
It is time to take you to school.
After the DOI was signed the slave states were: Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
Seems like there was one more. Oh yes, New Jersey.
New Jersey was a slave state.
And later New Jersey joined with the other states to unanimously enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution.
New Jersey voted for slavery.
Not necessarily because New Jersey liked slavery. Probably the only reason New Jersey voted to enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution was because the state's leadership determined it was in their own economic and political best self interest.
And now you know.
No, that was the common law of the United States *AND* the US Constitution that gave the people the right to own slaves. The US constitution even *REQUIRED* that escaped slaves be returned.
You are just bitching because the CSA constitution *ALSO* gave people the right to own slaves.
I think the bible says something about not worrying about the mote in your brothers eye until you've removed the beam in your own.