HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS: Rapid Concentration of Troops at the National Capital; EXCITING REPORTS FROM BALTIMORE; Troops Coming Forward from All Points (4/22/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 4/22/1861

[jmacusa]

Slavery was not on the decline in the deep south but in the states to the north.

But the revisionist argument of slavery was on the way out'' fly's in the face of the simple fact of history you Rebs are either unable or unwilling to face. > The South went to war to preserve it. And expand it if it won.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "If the map went back to 1776, it would show an even better trend, because when the nation started, all of the states were slave states, and the movement was all in the direction of abolition."

Your map is inaccurate.
It should show, but does not, slavery in:

1. California (1790-1850)
2. New Mexico (1790-1860)
3. Utah (1860)
4. Oklahoma (1830-1860)
5. Kansas (1850-1860)
6. New Jersey (1850-1860)
7. Delaware (1860)

Regardless, it does at least show the expansion of slavery from the East Coast to more than a thousand miles west into Texas.
It should also show slavery in Oklahoma, New Mexico, California & Utah at some periods.
Further, as DiogenesLamp advocates, another SCOTUS Dred Scott-type ruling would make abolition "unconstitutional" in every state!

And then there were the hopes & plans of Southern adventurers known as "Filibusters" of the Golden Circle:

[jeffersondem]

“But the revisionist argument of slavery was on the way out’’ fly’s in the face of the simple fact of history . . .”

It doesn’t appear you fully understand the importance of the Florida Supreme Court’s 1860 ruling in Cato a Slave, vs. The State.

[jmacusa]

You don't seem to understand Dred Scott.

You don't seem to understand April 9, 1865.

[jeffersondem]

I guess right about now you would rather write about anything other than “Cato a Slave, vs. The State.”

Please explain - in your own words - what you were taught in school about that case?