[jeffersondem]

“Nonsense, politics is politics. Representatives often agree to provisions they dislike in order to obtain a larger goal they want more. One now famous politician wrote a book about it, perhaps you’ve heard, “The Art of the Deal”?”

Brother Joe, you are getting close to recognizing that slavery - which some believe the northern states knew to be morally wrong before the Revolutionary War - was enshrined into the United States Constitution as part of a deal for the North to obtain a larger goal.

That “goal” has been referred to elsewhere as the North’s economic and political best self interest.

Some say many years later an archetype Lincoln famously explained how the deal came unglued. See the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsW9MlYu31g

[BroJoeK]

jeffersondem: "That “goal” has been referred to elsewhere as the North’s economic and political best self interest."

Only by Lost Cause Marxists with your endless economic dialectics.
Love of country is more accurate, as expressed here:

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

So it was more than just "economic and political self interest", regardless of what Karl Marx later thought about it.

jeffersondem: "Some say many years later an archetype Lincoln famously explained how the deal came unglued.
See the link."

So, do I surmise correctly that you have now humbly confessed that, yes, secession was "all about slavery" and the Deep South's perception that Lincoln's Black Republicans represented an existential threat to their "peculiar institution"?

Or is that just another fantasy from a galaxy long ago and far, far away?