The South wanted to keep slavery among other things and the North abolished it with the Constitution.I'm not quite sure what you meant....
Was your intent to state that the North used the Constitution to abolish slavery?
or...
That both institutions met simultaneous demise?
Was your intent to state that the North used the Constitution to abolish slavery?
I guess my intent is to say since the Preamble to the Constitution states "all men are created equal", this is what the north used, via Abe Lincoln, to write the Emancipation Proclamation and declare slavery illegal. I am not familiar with all of mess this caused in congress. After all there already were a few states wanting to secede before this event took place.
Abe's Proclamation was pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. The civil war was more than just the fight to end slavery, although it was the north's main argument to belittle the southern states and try and force their submission to the north's politics.
So in that way I guess I am saying the Constitution was used to end slavery. Does that clear it up any?