[4CJ]

...while at the same time make sure that NO ONE ever did away with slavery. The document was a pure slave document if there ever was one.

It prohibited the federal government from doing so. The states could do as they pleased. It was no more a slave document than was the US Constitution. The federal congress was required to prohibit the introduction of new African slaves, and Jefferson Davis did veto a bill attempting to do just that on 28 Feb 1861.

[LS]

I think you will find there are all sorts of protections for slavery in the Confed. constitution. The southern states had already threatened to "re-enslave" any free black merchantman who disembarked from a northern ship in southern waters, meaning that no state could ever effectively abolish slavery, because it would not have commerce or comity with those remaining states who did have it. Of course, let's get real: NO southern state was anywhere close to abolishing slavery. Quite the opposite, they were quickly driving out all "free men of color" as fast as they could.