Wrong! The states were sovereign. Southern SOVEREIGN states left the union. The union brought them back at gun point.
That there is a white female slave market in the Middle East TODAY with no deeds of ownership in existence is demonstration of the fact that you don’t have the slightest idea what you are talking about.
Enslaved = slavery.
Period.
No they were not, in point of fact.
After the Constitution was ratified, the individual states were no longer sovereigns, as the Constitution makes explicitly clear.