[Non-Sequitur]

The south, per their constitution was moving away from the slave trade internatioally.

I would say that this part from article 1, section 9: "The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same" actually protected the international slave trade rather than moved away from it.

[Sherman Logan]

Good point. They attempted to make the international slave trade legal. It just didn’t work, as the border never became effective.