The United States outlawed the slave trade in 1807. And yet, slavery not only continued but grew EXPONENTIALLY in the southern states for the next 60 years, so much so that they needed to expand westward and soutward. By the logic of your non-argument "argument", sounds like southern slavers weren't very "civilized" then eh? 🤔😉

Speaking of the Rebel "Constitution" and how it addressed slavery...

Sec. 9. (I) The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.

(2) Congress shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Confederacy.

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(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

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Sec. 2. (I) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.

(3) No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.

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In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.

But yeah, sure, many civilized, much righteous, wonderful society.

There's a reason why the Virginian James Madison made certain that the word "slave" did not appear in the Constitution of the United States of America, because he "thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men."

Quite the contrasting documents, eh?

The United States outlawed the slave trade in 1807. And yet, slavery not only continued but grew EXPONENTIALLY in the southern states for the next 60 years, so much so that they needed to expand westward and soutward. By the logic of your non-argument "argument", sounds like southern slavers weren't very "civilized" then eh? 🤔😉

Speaking of the Rebel "Constitution" and how it addressed slavery...

Sec. 9. (I) The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.

(2) Congress shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Confederacy.

[...]

(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

[...]

Sec. 2. (I) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.

(3) No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.

[...]

In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.

But yeah, sure, many civilized, much righteous, wonderful society.

There's a reason why the Virginian James Madison made certain that the word "slave" did not appear in the Constitution of the United States of America, because he "thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men."

Quite the contrasting documents, eh?

The United States outlawed the slave trade in 1807. And yet, slavery not only continued but grew EXPONENTIALLY in the southern states for the next 60 years, so much so that they needed to expand westward and soutward. By the logic of your non-argument "argument", sounds like southern slavers weren't very "civilized" then eh? 🤔😉