Did you skim right by that part? Looks like rather that forbidding slave imports is was specifically protecting them from one source.
You said, “... other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America...
Did you skim right by that part? Looks like rather that forbidding slave imports is was specifically protecting them from one source.”
I’m not sure exactly what you are getting at here. In the United States after the Act of 1807 you couldn’t import any slaves from a foreign country. The Confederate Constitution says that a slave can’t be imported from any foreign nation other than the United States or it’s territories with the added stipulation that the Congress of the Confederate States could make a law to prohibit even that in the future.
So granted if the Confederate states had succeeded from the Union and they imported a slave from the United States they would technically still be importing a slave from a foreign country don’t you think that is just nitpicking to say it’s any different from the United States policy at the time?
Next are you going to tell me I spelled something wrong?
Sorry for my last snarky remark. I just get worked up when anyone rewrites history. The Union did not go to war against the Southern states to free the slaves. If they were so adverse to slavery they would have outright banned it before the war. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t even free all the slaves. It only freed the slaves in the Confederate States. Why not all the slaves if we went to war to free the slaves and end slavery?