‘Had the South dominated as you inferred, then slavery would have spread to all other states, and slavery as an issue in the Civil War would never have happened.’
disagree; there still would have been strife amounting to open warfare; but it may have been the free states seceding instead...
it would be an interesting exercise to determine the ramifications of that...
I did not say the Civil War would not have happened, just without the 3/5ths slavery would not have been an issue (”slavery as an ISSUE in the Civil War would never have happened.”) - as you know the original issue was taxation