"Prohibited uses: Building pyramids; "
Uh, nobody was building pyramids in the United States.
"Fighting as a gladiator; Using to propel ships; Blacksmithing; Butlering; Manservant; etc. etc. etc...."
I'm glad this guy is on your side. He is a fool.
Quick side bar: Pst, there are more territories than just 'New Mexico'
Cause Mr. Brilliant Genius Pikachu thinks cotton might grow in even more northerly territories than the ones it wouldn't grow in in New Mexico.
Yeah, you got me there. I never thought to mention that perhaps they could grow cotton up in Utah territory. Good thing we have a smart guy like you to think of these things that we ordinary intelligence people would have missed.
The Republicans were opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Cause 12 of them in New Mexico territory was a national crises! There were more slaves in Delaware or Pennsylvania than in all of New Mexico territory.
To clarify the point, the Northern coalition headed by New York wealth, was very much against the expansion of voting members in congress allied with the Southern states, because they liked their Southern Milk Cow.
If they got more support in Congress, the Milk Cow might kick, and stop letting them have all the milk.
Headquarters of the "Free Soil" movement was in New York instead of a thousand miles to the West, where you know, the actual land was.
New York wealth and influence still runs the nation today.
“It is true nobody was building pyramids in the United States.”
Per the 1860 census, there were 3.95 million slaves in the United States. About 2.7 million of those slaves were actively employed in cash crop agriculture.
The other 1.25 million slaves, were used to build rail roads, court houses, forts, post offices. They were trained as masons, black smiths, wheel wrights, carpenters. In the South, these people were competed directly against free labor pling those trades. All Southern manufacturing operations employed slaves so some extent. Tredegar employed 40% slave labor. No only pick & shove work, but as mill wright, machinists, blacksmith etc. Virtually every facet of Southern economic activity relied heavily on slave labor.
Had Southerners decided to move in any large numbers into the South West, they would have taken their slaves with them. To build houses, roads, railroads, churches, punch cattle, tend sheep, farm food crops for the masters.
Never would they be there in the numbers as in MS, AL or LA.
but they would have been there.