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jwirr

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16. The southern states made it very clear they were NOT going

Reply to ladjf (Reply #9)

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 06:21 PM

Feb 2016

to sign on if they lost slavery. If the other states had pushed it they would have walked.

We would then have been 13 unconnected states at the mercy of England. If we had pushed it then we would have still been under the threat from England but the southern states would have done what they did years later. Declared war on the remainder of the states.

Unfortunately - slavery should have been stopped back then but it did not happen.

BTW Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was not a participant in the Constitutional Convention. He was actually serving as a minister to France the whole time it was being written.

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Slavery in the U.S. should have been explicitly outlawed in the Constitution ladjf Feb 2016 #1

That outlawing slavery in the Constitution melm00se Feb 2016 #2

I've heard that argument. But, I'm not convinced it's true. ladjf Feb 2016 #3

The Southern delegates would never have signed on to the Constitution hifiguy Feb 2016 #6

Your argument makes sense. But, if the Southern states had to either ladjf Feb 2016 #9

In the original of the Declaration of Independence melm00se Feb 2016 #10

How interesting. I've been saying, "why didn't Jefferson put the wording in th ladjf Feb 2016 #12

Don't fall into the name trap melm00se Feb 2016 #17

You are obviously better posted on the entire chronology of the various ladjf Feb 2016 #18

Lincoln tried very hard to preserve the Union without war D Gary Grady Feb 2016 #19

Actually no, Jefferson put in a phrase blaming the slave TRADE on the crown, which was BS Bucky Feb 2016 #13

The southern states made it very clear they were NOT going jwirr Feb 2016 #16

I don't think this is right... joeybee12 Feb 2016 #4

ha ha Bucky Feb 2016 #14

What nutcases joeybee12 Feb 2016 #15

Moving to Cape Breton Island is sounding better and better every day. Initech Feb 2016 #5

I've been looking into that as well KamaAina Feb 2016 #8

And the other 80 percent don't know what slaves were. KamaAina Feb 2016 #7

BLM opened my eyes that this racism in the here and now is most certainly not confined to the GOP. LanternWaste Feb 2016 #11