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I am reading through this book written in 1860 by someone whom I believe to be a Northerner, probably from New York.

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It has some very interesting observations that dovetail quite well with my theory. I did not know that it was for New England interests that the Slave trade was continued till 1808. I had always assumed it was a concession to the South.

Very interesting read so far.

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Doesn't everybody know by now that Northerners participated in the slave trade? So did the other maritime powers of the Western World. So did Southerners, though they weren't building and sailing their own ships to the extent that Northerners, or Britons, or French or Dutch or Spanish or Portuguese were. Don't be the person who pretends he's just discovered what everybody else has known for years.

The vote at the Constitutional Convention was on whether the slave trade could not be abolished until 1808. It was intended as a concession to Georgia and South Carolina (and some sources say North Carolina). The New England states voted for the measure. So did most of the Southern states. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia voted against it because they wanted Congress to have the right to abolish slavery before 1808.

G. Morris from Pennsylvania, on August 25, was rather blunt: why not say that this part of the Constitution was a compliance with… North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia.”