Overlooking? No, there were buyers scattered up and down the colonies and then the states. The south was a far more agrarian region and so the presence of and dependence upon slavery was much more prevalent there.
Please don't tell me you suppose slaves were only in the south. That's just ignorant.
They were property in the South, not people.
... and apparently in the north as well, otherwise there would have been no debate placing moneygrubbing and politics over the very humanity of slaves.
They had no more rights than a horse or a cow did. For the Southerners to demand that their chattel was entitled to representation was the height of hypocrisy. The 3/5ths clause still gave the South a disproportionate level of representation in the House.
So, let's just chalk Freeper Drennan Whyte up in the "not human at all" category, then. Can't have "disproportionate" levels of representation based upon nonhumans. /sarc
That was the position of the Southern representatives to the Constitutional convention. That was the position of the Southern population up to, through, and in many cases after the Civil War was over. The whole Southern society was built on a master race concept and the ownership of other human beings. Does your condemnation extend to them as well?
ping for later