“Those who owned slaves in the south simply hid behind the states rights issue as legal justification for violating human rights.”
Yup. Unfortunatley, states’ rights got anihilated along with slavery as a result...
>>> Yup. Unfortunatley, states’ rights got anihilated along with slavery as a result...
No they didn’t. The constitution was not altered as a result of the civil war repealing states rights.
The 10th amendment is still there.
Human rights trumps states rights, and were it not for the cause of abolishing slavery, I seriously doubt the north would have been willing to give up so much blood.