You mean there wasn't sufficient will of the people to create an amendment banning it? Well isn't that the reason the amendment process is in the constitution; To keep changes from occurring for which their is insufficient support?
It is a fiction that the 13th amendment was legally passed. That was just the wielding of raw military power to oppress states and force them to vote for what the dictator said, and that's all it was.
The slave states could block any such attempt.
Yes they could, and D@mn them for preventing people from re-writting the constitution without actually having to amend it through the legal process.
Stubborn bastards, don't they know it's a "living constitution"? It should mean whatever northeaster liberals want it to mean.
Add to this fact that a gag rule about discussing slavery had been enforced in congress since the 1830s so you couldn’t even talk about such an amendment.
I guess @$$hole Charles Sumner didn't get the memo.
No, damn the slaveocracy for sticking with a system that enslaved other human beings. But I thank God he hardened their hearts and made them rebel so the scourge of slavery could be extinguished from this great republic. It’s a shame that 350,000 loyal Americans had to die to make that happen.