[SJC_Libertarian]

And those who sheltered slaves were violating libertarian principles. Property before people.

Come again? Slaves were property, not people? Are you joking, or just bereft of your senses?

[Roscoe]

Slaves were property, not people?

Libertarian doctrine holds that the 13th Amendment is an infringement of the absolute right of contract, which necessarily includes a right to sell yourself into slavery as well as to buy and sell slaves.