My brother in Christ, go back and reread what I said with your trigger filters off. Framers in the North were generally less interested in making a mandate on human trafficking either way, since they had the ports and the banks. There were a couple pro-freedom radicals amongst them of course, but I was very careful not to ascribe that moral boon to any region, since it was a wide-spread notion with few proclaimers of real political power.
The states who relied on magic math for their economic power did not care as much if one of their main goods was made illegal, since they could pick up the slack elsewhere in their vast portfolio of tradable goods. No free stolen labour would sting, but you always had the old standby of cheap immigrant labour that you could exploit by underpaying them, and plenty of it. Meanwhile, for the Southern framers, not just their economy and their right to self-determination that they fought and died for, but their entire way of life was at stake if they lost the right to own humans as objects. The South was understandably very nervous about codifying freedoms that could eventually be used to legislatively bully them into existential change, and when that failed, used as a moral bullwhip to unleash the hounds upon them. Which, you know, did end up happening. Hence, all the sweet-talking and reassurances that were needed. The banking systems that ultimately led us to 2008 were a product of the North, and the South generally did not trust them, preferring the reality of the physical goods they produced right there on American soil. Many didn't even see the need for a Constitution or a federal government, and would have preferred to just be a loose coalition (or confederation?) of states with standing agreements to back each other up if the British came back or the Canucks got frisky. It's not a moral assertion, it's just history that the Constitution's road to ratification was rocky and fraught, and the framers of the South generally needed to be worked upon to get on board with saddling themselves with a federal government ostensibly made of all but actually run out of frickin New York. And we know what those New Yorkers are like.
My brother in Christ, go back and reread what I said with your trigger filters off. Framers in the North were generally less interested in making a mandate on human trafficking either way, since they had the ports and the banks. There were a couple pro-freedom radicals amongst them of course, but I was very careful not to ascribe that moral boon to any region, since it was a wide-spread notion with few proclaimers of real political power.
The states who relied on magic math for their economic power did not care as much if one of their main goods was made illegal, since they could pick up the slack elsewhere in their vast portfolio of tradable goods. No free stolen labour would sting, but you always had the old standby of cheap immigrant labour that you could exploit by underpaying them, and plenty of it. Meanwhile, for the Southern framers, not just their economy and their right to self-determination that they fought and died for, but their entire way of life was at stake if they lost the right to own humans as objects. The South was understandably very nervous about codifying freedoms that could eventually be used to legislatively bully them into existential change, and when that failed, used as a moral bullwhip to unleash the hounds upon them. Which, you know, did end up happening. Hence, all the sweet-talking and reassurances that were needed. The banking systems that ultimately led us to 2008 were a product of the North, and the South generally did not trust them, preferring the reality of the physical goods they produced right there on American soil. Many didn't even see the need for a Constitution or a federal government, and would have preferred to just be a loose coalition (or confederation?) of states with standing agreements to back each other up if the British came back or the Canucks got frisky. It's not a moral assertion, it's just history that the Constitution's road to ratification was rocky and fraught, and the framers of the South generally needed to be worked upon to get on board with saddling themselves with a federal government ostensibly made of all but actually run out of frickin New York. And we know what those New Yorkers are like.