[Rabble]

"Furthermore the southern states were acting illegaly and against the constitution by denying others their god given right to liberty, which is why almost all Northern states abolished slavery shortly after the US Constitution was sighned, because slavery is unconstitutional."

Please point me to the section in the Constitution that states slavery is unconstitutional, as I am unable to find it. The Constitution prior to the civil war, that is.

[WhiteSox1837]

Are you being sarcastic? Sometimes its hard to tell when people make such extremely stupid statements. Its actually stated in the preamble that government exists to secure the individual liberty's of the people. Therefore slavery is illegal. If you don't feel that black people are people then you truly don't have a place in decent society...

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

[LexBaird]

Please point me to the section in the Constitution that states slavery is unconstitutional, as I am unable to find it. The Constitution prior to the civil war, that is.

I'd argue that the 5th A. prohibition against depriving a person "of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" was violated by slavery. Clearly, a person born into slavery, simply due to his paternity, is a deprivation of any due process for a crime. But, the hypocrisy of chattel, generational slaves being both people and property didn't seem to impinge on the Antebellum American mind.