JakeStarkey
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Yes, recognized and protected. That has little bearing on whether or not others own slaves. You seem to fall for the typical fallacy that sicne the C.C protected the institution (as it was viewed as private property of the time), that means that every confederacy state MUST own slaves. The slave trade was already dying. Right along with slavery the world over. It would have ended on its own, as many confederates believed. The difference is, the confederacy didnt want congress deciding for everyone that it ends by force. (a fuckin' oxymoron if one ever existed).
The confederates had no intention of allowing slavery to extinguish itself.
90% of every dollar was directly or indirectly tied up with the cotton industry, which rested on slavery.
And any day that slavery existed in North America was an extra day of sordid infamy.